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From: cooker@ci.ua.pt (Fernando Cozinheiro)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Screen saver never activates
Date: 13 Jul 1996 08:57:43 GMT
Organization: Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
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Conrad Sabatier (conrads@dolphin.neosoft.com) wrote:
:
: I've enabled the "stars" screen saver in my sysconfig, but I have yet to
: ever see it actually kick in.  Is there something else I need to do?
:
: Thanks!
: -- 
: Conrad Sabatier -- http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads
:

Have you set the blank time (in seconds)?

See  /etc/sysconfig  and put  something on the blanktime  variable.  For
example:  180 (3 minutes).

--
Fernando Cozinheiro                     http://sweet.ua.pt/~cooker/
System & Network Administrator          Email: cooker@ci.ua.pt
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