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From: bruce@hpihoah.HP.COM (Bruce LaVigne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: auto dark of screen
Message-ID: <5030003@hpihoah.HP.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 89 22:52:22 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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> Does anyone know of or have a good "auto dark" daemon for the
> bit-mapped monitors on HP 3xx workstations?  I'm thinking of
> something like "saver" which runs on the SUNs; a process
> that keeps on eye on the keyboard and mouse and if nothing is going
> on for a while, darkens the screen.

I use "xset" with the "s" option to blank the screen after n seconds.
This is, of course, under X11 (and probably under X10 as well).
Bumping the mouse causes the screen to be displayed again...

-bruce