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From: hedley@inferno.cs.bris.ac.uk (David Hedley)
Subject: Re: Xlock
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Charles Tilbury (ctilbury@infohwy.com.REMOVE.JUNK) wrote:

: I can't seem to figure out how to prevent X from blanking the screen after
: a period of time.  I am 
: using Xlock, and that seems to work OK...

You need to pass '-s 0' as an argument to the X server to disable its
internal screen blank facility