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From: johnhlee@CS.Cornell.EDU (John H. Lee)
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Subject: Re: TURN COMPUTER OFF OR LEAVE ON?
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Date: 6 Jun 91 20:50:26 GMT
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In article <91156.110456GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> Ives Aerts <GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be> writes:
>On the point of screen blankers. We have here a little network
>of ps2/s running aix (ibm's version of unix) and they too have
>a screen blanker installed under x-windows. But.... the screen
>'blanker' displays a WHITE screen with a moving black X on it |||
>What's the point ? Burning in the screen as hard as you can
>while the user isn't there ????? Someone who can explain this ?

This sounds like the default screen blanker built into the server which
should appear with a white X-logo and black background.  You're right:
this is nearly the best way to burn up the pixels of your monitor.  Someone
may have messed-up when building/coding the server and hardwired in the
wrong pixel values for black and white.  If this is the case, you might try
several things:

    1) Correct the bug in the server source, rebuild, and reinstall the
	server,
    2) Change the default screen blanker behavior by trying the "nologo"
	(don't use logo for screen blanker) and/or "v" flags (turn-off-video
	screen blanker) when starting the X Window server, or
    3) Run a screen-blanker client like xsaver which disables the built-in
	screen blanker.

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