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From: Marvin Foster <mefoster@nospam.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Xlock Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 15:14:30 -0500 Organization: Bell Northern Research Lines: 16 Message-ID: <2FBAE699524D1358.0D81CE232D3B0D3F.D631969249BEF8FF@library-proxy.airnews.net> X-Orig-Message-ID: <339329A5.113C@nospam.com> References: <01bc6bcd$5845fa20$32327881@wingdog> <EB595I.IGI@fsa.bris.ac.uk> NNTP-Proxy-Relay: library.airnews.net NNTP-Posting-Host: biceps.gymnet.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/712) Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!newshub1.home.com!newshub2.home.com!news.home.com!howland.erols.net!ais.net!news.nol.net!gryphon.phoenix.net!news-in.iadfw.net!news.gymnet.com!LSNT1!lsbsdi6.lightspeed.net!news-ana-7.sprintlink.net!news-ana-24.sprintlink.net!news-west.sprintlink.net!news-peer.sprintlink.net!news.sprintlink.net!Sprint!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!btnet!btnet-feed2!bmdhh222.bnr.ca!bcarh8ac.bnr.ca!nrchh52.rich.nt.com!crchh327.rich.bnr.ca!news Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42245 David Hedley wrote: > > Charles Tilbury (ctilbury@infohwy.com.REMOVE.JUNK) wrote: > > : I can't seem to figure out how to prevent X from blanking the screen after > : a period of time. I am > : using Xlock, and that seems to work OK... > > You need to pass '-s 0' as an argument to the X server to disable its > internal screen blank facility Another way to do this is to put the following line in your .xinitrc file: xset s off