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From: Brett Worth <brett@select.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Xlock
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 10:41:44 +1000
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On 29 May 1997, Charles Tilbury 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...

The xset command is what you want.

> Chalres Tilbury

Brett

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