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From: herndon@sctc.com (William R. Herndon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: automatic screen dimming
Keywords: 1.0 screen dimming saver
Message-ID: <1990Nov28.164541.12961@sctc.com>
Date: 28 Nov 90 16:45:41 GMT
References: <15145@cs.utexas.edu> <1990Nov27.234917.3887@engin.umich.edu> <4338@idunno.Princeton.EDU>
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fuchs@czar.Princeton.EDU (Ira Fuchs) writes:

>On the same topic, I have asked before about whether anyone had gotten
>screensaver (found in the archives) to work (we haven't). I got one 
>affirmative response but we still can't make it work and it behaves
>similarly under 2.0. If it worked, it would be a nice way to do screen 
>blanking as it permits any postscript file to be used as the screen display
>(including just black).

    I have gotten it to work under certain circumstances.  The invokation
    of the program, that is launched from the boot processing ( ie. forked
    from within the processing of rc.local ), does not work.  Killing the 
    initial invokation and restarting the program in the backround works
    for as long as the invoking user remains logged in.  However, as soon
    as that user logs out, the program ceases to work.

    I am confidant that the program is attempting to run one of its 
    screensaver scripts because on my cube the screen will dim, momentarily,
    and then brightens ( just as it usually does when the program successfully
    starts a screensaver script ).  However, nothing else happens, and this
    is actually worse that not using the screensaver system at all because
    screensaver brightens the screen to full before failing to fork the 
    screensaver script and leaves the screen that way.



								- Max

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