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From: severyn@athena.ecs.csus.edu (Niles Severyn)
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Subject: Re: Yet another way to dim your screen...
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Date: 4 Jun 91 20:41:30 GMT
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Gee, that really sucks. Stupid LoginWindow!

Way back when, I wrote a program to bring the monitor brightness down
to zero, so that when people logged out, the monitor wouldn't be left
bright at all, for any length of time. This was annoying because you
had to rebright the monitor by hand to see what you were typing (of
course after you login, the way you left the monitor is restored, so
you don't have to bring it ALL the way up).

Anyway, I saw that program to change the dim level, and I figured that
would be WAAAAAAYYYY better, because then when you pushed a key you
could see immediatly.

So, I removed my "black" program from my /LocalApps/logoutexec file
and put in the program that sets the dimlevel to zero. Well, the
program works fine, except that STUPID LoginWindow resets the dimlevel
to 15 AND resets the dimtime to 30 MINUTES!!!! No wonder my slab at
home takes so long to dim after I log out! And I even have root set to
dim at 5 minutes here and at home!

Oh well, guess I'll have to go back to "black".