From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 14 15:20:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA21798 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:20:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA21719 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:20:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA02853; Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:19:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 1997 15:19:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Christoph Kukulies cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: screensaver, xdm, X In-Reply-To: <199710131051.MAA01469@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > I want to have a screensaver running which already acts on > the xdm login prompter screen? on the mach64 and other servers, you can enable the power-saver option. This will use the VESA power signaling to turn off your display after N minutes. This works from the xlogin screen too so it's a universally handy option. I think there is a script that starts every time the x server is restarted, .Xinit or something. That may be a good target to add xscreensaver. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major