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From: naughton%wind@Sun.COM (Patrick Naughton)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11 screen saver
Summary: disable it if you don't want it.
Keywords: X11 screen-saver
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Date: 20 Oct 88 16:49:13 GMT
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It sounds like the people with xclock and other continuous output X
clients who want the screen saver to reset on screen output simply want
to disable the screen saver entirely.  If they use xlock(1) as their
screen saver when they really want one, they should just use xset(1) to
disable the screen saver:

% xset -s off

or a simple program that does this:

		. . .
    XSetScreenSaver(dpy, 0, 0, 0, 0); /* disable screen saver */
		. . .

-Patrick

p.s. The new xlock has a -saver option to just put up the graphical display
     and not lock the display.

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