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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:27:07 +0200
From:      Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>
To:        Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE>, freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: screensaver, xdm, X
Message-ID:  <19971015092707.15068@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971014151702.2718M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>; from Doug White on Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 03:19:52PM -0700
References:  <199710131051.MAA01469@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> <Pine.BSF.3.96.971014151702.2718M-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>

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On Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 03:19:52PM -0700, Doug White wrote:
> 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.

I compared my installation with a Linux machine standing nearby
this machine and couldn't find anything special. 
I thought the X server might have a resource one could set
initially or in the Xserver file of the xdm directory as a command line
option to start the X server always with saver on but didn't
find anything.

> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
> 

-- 
--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de



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