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From: H1C5962@RIGEL.TAMU.EDU (Lee Cox - Academic Computing Services)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: DECwindows screen saver questions
Message-ID: <900112233623.2020516b@RIGEL.TAMU.EDU>
Date: 13 Jan 90 05:36:23 GMT
Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root)
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>> On a DECstation 3100, if I use the "xset s noblank" command, as soon as
>> I logoff, it (like the online doc says it should) goes back to the
>> default of blanking the screen.  How do I change the default to be
>> noblank?
>
>Methinks you want to disable the 'screen-saver' capability...no?
>You can disable the screen-saver if you are running the DECwindows
>session manager....via the 'Customize/window' pull-down entry.  You
>can also set times on 'blanking'.  Just remember to save the resources
>after you set them.

No, I don't want to disable the screen saver; I want to change its
behavior.  Using the "xset s blank" command causes the normal behavior
of causing the screen to go blank after a period of inactivity set with
sm.screen_saver_period.  However, if I use the "xset s noblank" command,
the screen will not go completely blank.  Instead, all windows except
the background will disappear.  The background window will shift
slightly to avoid burning the background pattern into the screen and an
"X" (as in the xlogo) of a varying size will blank a random part of the
screen.  We have some of our workstations in a glass-enclosed area in
front of our Cray YMP and when we installed a MIPS 2030 there, I noticed
that it used the "noblank" behavior for the screen saver as its default. 
Since we are trying to draw attention to them, I would like to have our
DECstation 3100 and our VAXstations 3100 and 3520 do the same thing. 
I've been able to get the DECstation 3100 to do the "noblank" while I
was logged in, but once I logged out, it went back to blanking the
screen.