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Re: We want to change Solaris 2.6 monitor power saving.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Tue Jul 21 15:39:49 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:39:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Angelo Rajadurai <angelo@oasis.West.Sun.COM>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199807172311.QAA18130@althea.West.Sun.COM>
Excerpts from mail: 17-Jul-98 Re: We want to change Solar.. Angelo
Rajadurai@oasis.W (2637*)
> From the above it looks like the Xsun turns off the monitor if and only
> if the screensaver is set to blank. Could you confirm this finding for
> me in MIT's
> setup.
We make no explicit settings for the screensaver, so we get the
hard-coded default.
Excerpts from pm.sun.projects: 17-Jul-98 re: We want to change Solar..
oliver thomas@MIT.EDU (377)
> i believe if you do 'xset s noblank' you'll get an X screensaver instead
> of blank screen/power-off behavior, the X screensaver being a giant X
> moving against a dithered background.
With this as a starting off point, I looked at the man page for Xserver,
and discovered that the "-v" startup option which disables the video
blank.
Since it would require modifying 10,000 login files to run xset -s
noblank, the -v option is much more reasonable for our environment.
Angelo:
Does the -v option satisfy the enhancement request pending? For our
needs, an "X" wandering across the screen instead of a blank screen is
just fine!
Release-Team:
How important is this feature? Should we schedule adding "-v" to the X
startup default for a subsequent roll out of Athena 8.2?
-wdc
