screenblank/OpenWindows problem
James Cameron
jc at raven.bu.edu
Sat Mar 23 06:20:20 AEST 1991
>>>>> On 18 Mar 91 17:28:00 GMT, mayoff at cs.utexas.edu (Robert Mayoff) said:
RM> I have six SPARCstations 2 and two SPARCstations 1+. We run SunOS 4.1.1
RM> and use OpenWindows 2.0 basically all the time. The problem: screenblank
RM> (I assume; OpenWindows doesn't appear to handle that function itself)
[...Removed rest of screenblank problems...]
Apparently, Sun's screenblanking has a *serious/silly* bug in that it
sometimes only checks the /dev/console for messages. The simple
workaround is to have the Xserver (Xsun or whatever you use) run the
screenblanking for you and disable Sun's screenblanker. Your Xserver
probably takes a '-s' to get the screensaver option.
James Cameron - jc at raven.bu.edu
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