[1362] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Power saving mode on Solaris 2.6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Jul 17 15:27:24 1998
To: "Naomi B. Schmidt" <nschmidt@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:07:21 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 15:27:14 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> Knowing that lots of folks will be as bothered this feature as I am
I remain baffled that anyone cares very much, but okay.
> we'd like to put in a sentence saying that we're investigating the
> possibility of customizing or disabling it. First of all, I want to
> be sure that we're telling the truth when we say this
I just looked at the Xsun man page. It says that the X server turns
off the monitor power whenever it activates the screensaver (that
would be the screen-blanking X screensaver, not xlock or xscreensaver
or xlockmore). It doesn't look like there's any way to configure
this, so you're pretty much stuck. One can disable the X screensaver
with "xset s off", or one can use a screensaver program before leaving
one's workstation unattended.
I don't know what other "investigation" can be done.
