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Date:      Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:24:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      David Fleck <dcf@aracnet.com>
To:        mike mcgranahan <mike_mcgranahan@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: automatic standby after idle timeout
Message-ID:  <20030322112122.N6836@grond.sourballs.org>
In-Reply-To: <20030321142425.90578.qmail@web13805.mail.yahoo.com>
References:  <20030321142425.90578.qmail@web13805.mail.yahoo.com>

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On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, mike mcgranahan wrote:
> under windows it is possible to configure the system
> to enter APM standby after a certain amount of system
> inactivity.  in linux their is a program called sleepd
> which will initiate an APM standby after a
> configurable period of system inactivity, which works
> both on the console as well as while X is running.  is
> there any way to achieve the same effect under
> freebsd, where the system will enter standby after,
> say, 10 minutes of no activity?

try 'man xset'. grep for the dpms options.  In my AfterStep configuration,
I use
xset dpms 600 1200 1800

to set standby (10 min) suspend (20 min) and off (30 min) times.

--
David Fleck
dcf@aracnet.com


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