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From: Marvin Foster <mefoster@nospam.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Xlock
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 15:14:30 -0500
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David Hedley wrote:
> 
> 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

Another way to do this is to put the following line in your
.xinitrc file:

	xset s off