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From: bruce@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Bruce Burkhalter)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Want screen blanker that stays blanked
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Date: 5 Mar 90 01:16:45 GMT
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In article <3934@nicmad.UUCP> pophal@nicmad.UUCP (Gerry Pophal) writes:
>In article <1990Feb28.122242.785@aucs.uucp> peter@aucs.uucp (Peter Steele) writes:
>>Is there a screen blanker that stays blanked until either the mouse
>>or keyboard is pressed. All the screen blankers I use unblank in
>>situations where the running program puts up a dialog and I would
>>rather this be avoided, leaving me to unblank the screen when I
>>ready to use it again. Any one know of such a screen blanker?
>>
> Have you tried AutoBlack? It seems to function as required on a 68000 type
>macintosh. I wonder how AfterDark works regarding staying blank?
>    gp

After Dark wakes up if you move the mouse, hit a key, insert a disk, or
a dialog box comes up.  If a dialog box comes up, AD will wake up then fall
back asleep after a user set # of minutes.

Bruce Burkhalter
Berkeley Systems, Inc.