From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 15 00:17:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA24754 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA24747 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 00:17:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.8.7/RBI-Z13) with ESMTP id JAA00913; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:18:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id JAA10771; Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:27:08 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <19971015092707.15068@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 09:27:07 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Doug White Cc: Christoph Kukulies , freebsd-questions@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: screensaver, xdm, X References: <199710131051.MAA01469@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e In-Reply-To: ; from Doug White on Tue, Oct 14, 1997 at 03:19:52PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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