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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!nntprelay.mathworks.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk!server.arg.sj.co.uk!nobody From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@arg1.demon.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: basic screen saver for X? Date: Sat, 19 Jul 1997 20:46:30 +0100 Message-ID: <33D11996.41C67EA6@arg1.demon.co.uk> References: <33CE9DAD.41C67EA6@onramp.net> <slrn5t119d.a97.ripley@nortobor.nostromo.in-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk [194.222.34.166] X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 16 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44692 H. Eckert wrote: > > dlittell@onramp.net (Dave Littell): > > I'm looking for a basic (just goes black - no passwords, no fancy > > scribblings on the screen, etc.) screen saver for X under 2.1.6. Any > > assistance would be greatly appreciated. Something that can also power > > down the monitor would be extra wonderful. > > What's wrong about "xset s" ? And if you upgrade to XFree86 3.3, you can use: xset +dpms to enable power-down screensaving.