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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msunews!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.clark.net!rwatson From: rwatson@clark.net (Robert Watson) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: FreeBD Screen Saver (Text Based) Date: 10 Feb 1995 16:58:04 GMT Organization: The Star-Lit BBS, Bethesda, Maryland, USA Lines: 13 Message-ID: <3hg5us$sa1@clarknet.clark.net> References: <3hdm18$dva@darkstar.UCSC.EDU> NNTP-Posting-Host: clark.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Paul Stith (pauls@cats.ucsc.edu) wrote: : I know that at one point I has a screen saver running on my 2.0 : system... I even remember the options - but can't recall what : the executable was. Try vidcontrol(1) -- vidcontrol -t [timeoutinseconds] -s [NameofSaver|help for list] vidcontrol -s help will list the names of the available savers. If you want under X, that's a different matter though ;).