>>> Mine never turns off on its own.  Just switched between several VTs and
>>> my X session, the state didn't change at all.
>>
>> OK, well I guess it varies by distro then. This was, IIRC, Debian
>> "potato".
>
> Possible.  At the very least, there are ways to configure it to not do
> what you're seeing, but not knowing Debian, I couldn't tell you how on
> that distribution.

Quite. As I recall, stopping the shell doing this involved editing 
~/.bashrc and setting an environment variable or something like that.

>>> "in the shell" - do you mean on a VT?  Or is it changing when you open
>>> a term window in X?
>>
>> I mean in the text-mode screen that appears before you tell X Windows to
>> start up. (I didn't have it configured to run at startup.)
>
> That's a "virtual terminal" or VT.  aka the "Console".

Oh, right. I thought that refers only to when you run an X application 
that emulates a terminal in a window.

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