From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 1 21:13:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA26566 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 21:13:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iglou.com (sendmail@iglou2.iglou.com [192.107.41.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA26561 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 21:13:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dbj@iglou.com) Received: from lou-ts7-25.iglou.com ([204.255.238.140] helo=localhost) by iglou.com with smtp (8.7.3/8.6.12) id 0yrajm-0002Dg-00; Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:12:53 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Jul 1998 00:13:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Brooks Jr" X-Sender: dbj@localhost To: John Talton cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: XDM In-Reply-To: <199807020038.TAA28228@aurora.engr.latech.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, John Talton wrote: > 2) How do I get a screen saver in XDM so it doesnt burn a hole in > my monitor (running several computers in lab seting, screens > are on all the time - this is a real problem) My Xsetup_0 looks like this: #!/bin/sh # $XConsortium: Xsetup_0,v 1.3 93/09/28 14:30:31 gildea Exp $ xconsole -geometry 480x130-0-0 -daemon -notify -verbose -fn fixed -exitOnFail xhost +localhost xscreensaver -timeout 3 -cycle 3 & However, using 'xhost +localhost' can be a security risk as it makes the X session open to any connections from the localhost (on my home machine where this is, it's no big deal). Somebody who understands X far better than I probably has a better solution that isn't so insecure. -- Dave -- David E. Brooks Jr dbj@iglou.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message