Turn off screen saver in MobaXterm

Question

Is there a way turn off the screen saver on MobaXterm?

MobaXterm uses a screen saver implementing penguins icons which glide across the screen during periods of user inactivity. I would like to prevent this.

Answer 1

You must pay for that feature. It should say in the banner across the top of the window that you need the premium version to customize certain parts of the program.

Answer 2

I was able to do so by editing the configuration file (%MyDocuments%\MobaXterm\MobaXterm.ini) directly.

Be sure to close Moba first as it overwrites the ini file upon exit. Add the following to the Misc section:

[Misc]
...
TimerConst=1073741824

Note that with 0 and -1 the screen saver starts immediately, so I used a very large value (ca. 34 years).

The following parameters apply to the screen saver:

Setting	Default value	Comment
NbPenguins	4	Number of penguins for the "consolesaver"
TimerConst	600	Time (in seconds) before starting the "consolesaver"
TimerInt	100	Time (in ms) between each penguin move in the "consolesaver"

See https://blog.mobatek.net/post/mobaxterm-configuration-settings/

Tested with MobaXterm Personal Edition v10.5 Build 3582.