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From: raj@PARIS.ICS.UCI.EDU (Richard Johnson)
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Subject: Re: X11 screen saver
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Date: 28 Oct 88 18:49:59 GMT
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It seemed fairly obvious to me back under X10, and it still seems obvious,
that every client should be able to specify to the server whether or not
it's output is to be considered "important".  Clients' outputs would all
be considered "important" unless they specifically told the server it wasn't.
This way as long as the server is getting output from clients who have
told it their output is "unimportant", and hasn't gotten any output from
"important" clients, it could go ahead and enter screensaver.

Then we just need versions of xclock, xload, etc. which specify their output
as being unimportant.