Hi guys, just enjoying my new toy.

Is there any way to stop the screen timing out and turning off? I want to be able to leave the screen on all the time, not too bothered if the brightness goes or stays on full but I'd like the screen to always display something.

I can't find a setting in the control panel to set it more than really short lengths of time but was wondering if there might be a way to run some code of some sort that'll keep the screen updated, like an alert you instantly clear or something like that. I'm not much of a linux hacker but willing to give anything a go if pointed in the right direction.

Thanks,

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You might want to monitor the dbus messages and see if you can intercept when the device is about to dim the screen and prevent it from doing so, but it's very hacky and the best option would be to vote for and/or comment against the improved powermanagement profile bug/enhancement.

The best solution I've come up with is entering the following commands:

gconftool -t int -s /system/osso/dsm/display/display_dim_timeout 0
gconftool -t int -s /system/osso/dsm/display/display_blank_timeout 0

The screen still dims but it never turns off. That's a good enough solution for me. The only last thing I'd be tempted to do would be to have the screen turn back on every so often but I think I read earlier that there is no cron on the N800 so not quite sure how to go about that.

I've managed to get SSH tunnelling working between my machine and the device, it makes is so much easier to edit stuff!

Thanks