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From: jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: auto screenblanker under XNews a la X11R4
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Date: 7 Jan 91 03:29:01 GMT
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In article <5796@spdcc.SPDCC.COM> dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer) writes:
>I really was dismayed to find that the OpenWindows 2.0 XNews server doesn't
>have an auto-screen-blanking option (based on time since mouse/keyboard
>events) as does the X11R4 server.  I'm always forgetting to turn on a
>screensaver when I walk away.
>
>Since I'm relatively unfamilar with day-to-day running of Suns, am I
>just forgetting or missing something?
>

On Sun systems, if you want the screen to blank, you typically use the
screenblank program.  Typically you put the '/bin/screenblank' program
in /etc/rc.local.  Or just run it as super-user now so you don't have to
reboot the machine.  Because of this, having a screenblank in an application
is unecessary.  Unfortunately, Sun does not put screenblank in the boot
scripts as default.

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