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From: afabbro@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu (Andrew Philip Fabbro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Blanking of the screen
Date: 8 Mar 1996 21:38:20 GMT
Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor
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Quoth Thomas Evans:
: Does anybody know the trick to get the screen to blank after a period
: of inactivity, like Linux does.

From /etc/sysconfig:


# Set blank time (in seconds) or "off" to turn it off (or NO for default)
blanktime=300

# Set to screen saver desired: blank, green, snake, star (or NO for none)
saver=star



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