1 From mrapple@quack.kfu.com Mon Apr 26 18:31:07 1993
2 Newsgroups: alt.hackers
3 From: mrapple@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
4 Subject: screenblank and xautolock living in harmony
5 Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
6 Date: 23 Apr 1993 19:26:57 UTC
9 I have a Sun and use xinit to start X. This presented a problem.
10 If I use xautolock or xscreensaver to save the screen, then after
11 a period of inactivity screenblank would turn the video off despite
12 'xset s off'. If I didn't run screenblank, then who would take care of
13 the display when X wasn't running?
15 The hack that saved the day was to include this in .xinitrc:
27 [start up all the clients, etc, etc. Wait for the window manager
32 The result is that screenblank is kept safely out of the way when X
33 is running and left to do its job otherwise.
35 Yes, I know using XDM would solve this problem.
37 No, I'm probably not the first to think of this.
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