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-From mrapple@quack.kfu.com Mon Apr 26 18:31:07 1993
-Newsgroups: alt.hackers
-From: mrapple@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer)
-Subject: screenblank and xautolock living in harmony
-Organization: The Duck Pond public unix: +1 408 249 9630, log in as 'guest'.
-Date: 23 Apr 1993 19:26:57 UTC
-
-
-I have a Sun and use xinit to start X. This presented a problem.
-If I use xautolock or xscreensaver to save the screen, then after
-a period of inactivity screenblank would turn the video off despite
-'xset s off'. If I didn't run screenblank, then who would take care of
-the display when X wasn't running?
-
-The hack that saved the day was to include this in .xinitrc:
-
-(
-
-while true ; do
-sleep 360
-touch /dev/console
-done
-
-) &
-killblank=$!
-
-[start up all the clients, etc, etc. Wait for the window manager
-to die, then ]
-
-kill $killblank
-
-The result is that screenblank is kept safely out of the way when X
-is running and left to do its job otherwise.
-
-Yes, I know using XDM would solve this problem.
-
-No, I'm probably not the first to think of this.
-
-You're welcome.
-
---
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