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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