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From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How do I enable screen saver?
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:40:49 -0700
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Paul Kersey wrote:
> 
>   Hi folks,
>  When I set my FreeBSD up, I configured it to use the snake
> screen saver. I have never seen it start this screen saver.
> When it boots up one of the lines says screen saver enabled.
> Is there something else I need to type or execute to
> get this snake screen saver going?
> 
>                                 Thanx

set the blanktime parameter in the line just above the screen saver 
selection in /etc/sysconfig.

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Ken

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