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From: farhad@mist.CS.ORST.EDU (Farhad Shafabakhsh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: screen dimming
Keywords: lock screen dimmer
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Date: 18 Dec 90 21:25:56 GMT
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In article <41240@ut-emx.uucp> garnett@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Garnett) writes:
>
>For anyone interested, I just posted a short C program which
allows one to dim the NeXT screen under program control to
>alt.sources.
>
>BTW, the ioctl for controlling screen brightness is described
>in the evs man page.

LockScreen 3.0 (to be released soon) will lock the screen after inactivity
and can be used as a screen dimmer/screen locker combination.