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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!psgrain!iafrica.com!pipex-sa.net!plug.news.pipex.net!pipex!tube.news.pipex.net!pipex!lade.news.pipex.net!pipex!tank.news.pipex.net!pipex!swrinde!gatech!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!caen!stimpy!afabbro From: afabbro@stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu (Andrew Philip Fabbro) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Blanking of the screen Date: 8 Mar 1996 21:38:20 GMT Organization: University of Michigan Engineering, Ann Arbor Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4hq9cc$paf@srvr1.engin.umich.edu> References: <4hpfq7$p44@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: stimpy.us.itd.umich.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Quoth Thomas Evans: : Does anybody know the trick to get the screen to blank after a period : of inactivity, like Linux does. From /etc/sysconfig: # Set blank time (in seconds) or "off" to turn it off (or NO for default) blanktime=300 # Set to screen saver desired: blank, green, snake, star (or NO for none) saver=star Andrew Fabbro | "In Hong Kong, things are so ITD Marketing Research | simple. Here, there are too afabbro@umich.edu | many meetings." afabbro@katana.ucore.itd.umich.edu | -- John Woo