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From: stripes@eng.umd.edu (Joshua Osborne)
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Subject: Re: DECwindows screen saver questions
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Date: 16 Jan 90 21:24:43 GMT
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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?
>>

As a kludge you can put a short sleep in your .logout (if you use .cshrc)
and a xset.  (like "(sleep 60;xset s noblank) &").
Since you want it perminatly you might want to put it into the crontab, or
if you are running xdm mabie you can get that to do it...   (either with
a config file, or source hacking).

If you don't find a xset (or whatever) use xset from a Unix system:
xset s noblank -display mr_vms:0
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