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From: stolcke@ICSI.Berkeley.EDU (Andreas Stolcke)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
Subject: Re: auto screenblanker under XNews a la X11R4
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Date: 7 Jan 91 03:50:37 GMT
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In article <8016@hub.ucsb.edu> jim@ferkel.ucsb.edu (Jim Lick) writes:
>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
>On Sun systems, if you want the screen to blank, you typically use the
>screenblank program. [...]
>Because of this, having a screenblank in an application
>is unecessary.

The nice thing about having the screen saver in the X server is that
it allows you ot change its parameters under program control.  E.g., the
xlock program turns off the X server's screen saver because it does it's
own screen saving display.
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Andreas Stolcke					stolcke@icsi.berkeley.edu
International Computer Science Institute	stolcke@ucbicsi.bitnet
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