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From: eirik@tekcrl.TEK.COM (Eirik Fuller)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: X11 screen saver
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Date: 21 Oct 88 07:21:36 GMT
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In article <8810191538.AA12619@hplcyy.HPL.HP.COM> charles%hplcyy@HPLABS.HP.COM (Charles Young) writes:
)  ...
) Instead of the screen going blank when there are no input for a while, why
) not change it so that it only goes blank when there are no "drawing" ...

Please no; they made this mistake in X10.  You evidently don't use a clock.

I like the approach some mac screen savers take, in which there are
two special rectangles, one for blank right away, another for blank
never.  For long output only programs, you'd just park the cursor in
the magic spot that disables screen blanking.  Other interfaces to
this would be acceptable too, like menus perhaps.