*BSD News Article 63274


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!zombie.ncsc.mil!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!cs.tu-berlin.de!uni-erlangen.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!narses.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news
From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Blanking of the screen
Date: 10 Mar 1996 14:10:19 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
Lines: 12
Message-ID: <4hunsb$1re@uriah.heep.sax.de>
References: <4hpfq7$p44@rtpnews.raleigh.ibm.com>
Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch)
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3

evans@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com (Thomas Evans) writes:
> Does anybody know the trick to get the screen to blank after a period
> of inactivity, like Linux does.

You need to configure a screensaver.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)