Screen savers for SCO Sys V/386 Console?
Matt Costello
mattc at ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM
Wed Nov 22 10:48:15 AEST 1989
In article <1214 at ispi.UUCP> jbayer at ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:
>Not really. Remember, the kernel already supports saving the entire
>screen via the Multiscreen utility. All that is really needed is to
>save the current screen in an extra buffer (if it is not already saved)
>and blank out the screen until ANY key is pressed. This will involve
>linking together the keyboard and the console drivers, something that
>the designers at SCO aren't too thrilled about doing.
It is easier to just disable the multiscreen for tty12 by removing it from
/etc/inittab and then have the idle daemon send the escape sequence to
switch to multiscreen 12. Multiscreens are wonderful, but who needs all 12?
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Matt Costello <matt.costello at SanDiego.NCR.COM> (CSNET)
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