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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!newsfeeder.sdsu.edu!newspump.sol.net!news.inc.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!dispatch.news.demon.net!demon!arg1.demon.co.uk From: Andrew Gordon <andrew.gordon@net-tel.co.uk> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Screen saver never activates Date: Sat, 20 Jul 1996 21:45:49 GMT Lines: 12 Message-ID: <837899149.956.0@arg1.demon.co.uk> References: <4s42fm$1ji@uuneo.neosoft.com> <31E7AF1C.5052@www.play-hookey.com> <31E7F4D7.41C67EA6@uiuc.edu> <31F1655D.2DF5@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-NNTP-Posting-Host: arg1.demon.co.uk X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.1N (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-URL: news:31F1655D.2DF5@www.play-hookey.com Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> wrote: >I beg to differ. I have never set anything of the sort in XF86Config >(unless the xf86config routine reads blanking info set in /etc/sysconfig), >and yet my screen will blank promptly at the end of 2 minutes (120 sec) of >inactivity, even if I am running Netscape. I'm running 2.1R at the moment; >I haven't gotten 'round to upgrading to 2.1.5 as yet. :-) The default under XFree86 is for the screensaver to be enabled. This is a completely separate screensaver from the syscons one (nothing to stop you having both enabled, of course).