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From: smb@csn.org!datran2
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Burn-in fears (Real or Imaginary ?), Prevention ?
Keywords: Burn-in, Monitors, Screen-saving, Insanity
Message-ID: <1991Feb22.204802.3483@csn.org!datran2>
Date: 22 Feb 91 20:48:02 GMT
References: <2171@fornax.UUCP> <1121@lovelady.cs.utexas.edu>
Organization: Data Transforms, Inc.
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In article <1121@lovelady.cs.utexas.edu> garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett) writes:
>In article <2171@fornax.UUCP> oneill@fornax.UUCP (Richard O'Neill) writes:
>
>>Thinking about it, has anyone had problems with icons (such as the NeXT
>>icon) in the dock burning in, and if so is there any way to prevent this
>>happening.
>
>good question :-)  Maybe you could write an icon shuffler that would put
>your icons up in a different order each time you logged in!  Boy wouldn't
>that add to the learning curve for the environment (laugh).
>

As a matter of fact I have some slight burn-in on my two year old cube.
I always manually dim the screen at logout, and I have no noticeable
burnin of the login window.  I do have burnin of the icons.  Not the center
of the icons.  My own wetware neural net shuffling of their order seems
to be enough to prevent that, however, the white box around each icon
is now a permanent feature of my screen.

I also use scene (1.0 scene that is) to put up a background pattern of
a "tweed" or "burlap" that I rotate every few days.  This gives some random
burn in of the whole screen (I surmise) that hopefully will help keep
the ageing process a random one.

Steve


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