Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 15:10:29 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Programmatic control of screen-saver Message-ID: <20031112151029.GB22738@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200311122333.07674.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> References: <200311122333.07674.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net>
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:33:07PM +1030, Malcolm Kay wrote:
> I have a machine controlling a tester. Tester control and display is via a
> virtual console terminal. (X is not installed on the machine)
>
> I need to blank the screen (screen saver style) when there is no terminal
> activity for some time -- much the same as as normal screen-saver
> operation except that screen output as well as keyboard input should
> inhibit the screen-saver taking over or cause the normal terminal display
> to be restored if the saver is already in effect.
>
> I would hope that there might be some ioctl call to the terminal which
> could be used from within the tester control software to wake up the
> terminal or prevent the screen saver taking over until a further timeout
> has elapsed. I've not been able to find such an ioctl call parameter.
>
>
> Does anyone have any ideas or a solution please?
See vidcontrol(1):
# vidcontrol -t 30
sets the console screensaver timeout to 30s, and
# vidcontrol -t off
turns off the console screensaver. This does indeed operate using the
CONS_BLANKTIME ioctl -- see the code in the set_screensaver_timeout()
function in /usr/src/usr.sbin/vidcontrol/vidcontrol.c and the
<sys/consio.h> header file.
I think that ioctl should do what you want, although I'm not sure that
setting the blanking time to zero would actually cancel a running
screen saver.
Cheers,
Matthew
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