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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!wupost!uunet!icd.ab.com!tinman.mke.ab.com!tdphette From: tdphette@mke.ab.com (Thad Phetteplace x4461) Subject: Re: Monitor Blanking? Message-ID: <1992Dec3.203514.10545@tinman.mke.ab.com> Sender: usenet@tinman.mke.ab.com (NetNews server account) Nntp-Posting-Host: toejam Organization: Allen-Bradley Co. X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <19430@smoke.brl.mil> Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1992 20:35:14 GMT Lines: 23 mm@brl.mil (Mike Markowski) writes: : A week or so ago, someone mentioned that built in to the console driver : is a timeout to shut off the screen when the machine is idle for a while. : : I'm still familiarizing myself with the guts of 386bsd and haven't been : able to find it. How do I enable this nifty feature? Or did the original : poster only mean it is built into X? : : Thanks. I think this feature is in X (please no flames if I am wrong). It would be fairly easy to write a daemon to do the same outside of X though. I could post a short screen blanking program if anyone is interested. -- Thad Phetteplace Network Systems Analyst, Allen-Bradley Co. Phone: (414)382-4461 Email: tdphette@mke.ab.com The opinions expressed here are entirely my own and not that of my employer. I am not a slob, I am simply doing an experiment in domestic entropy!