Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!mcvax!guido
From: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Server screen blanking for dumb displays
Message-ID: <270@piring.cwi.nl>
Date: 10 Apr 88 20:20:06 GMT
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Reply-To: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
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The Xqvss server doesn't blank, but if you look carefully it alternates
the background pattern (at least if it's the default pattern) so that
each pixel gets a duty cycle of 50%.  I don't know if this is sufficient
to save your screen, though.  To see it happen, try 'xset s 10 5'.
(BTW, this causes a load of 50% on my VaxStation2000, just the server
repainting the entire screen and drawing the X logo every 5 seconds!
In general the server is unacceptably slow.  Anyone care to improve it a
bit?
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Guido van Rossum, Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science (CWI), Amsterdam
guido@cwi.nl or mcvax!guido or (from ARPAnet) guido%cwi.nl@uunet.uu.net