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Re: We want to change Solaris 2.6 monitor power saving.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Angelo Rajadurai)
Tue Jul 21 17:14:23 1998
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 14:08:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Angelo Rajadurai <angelo@oasis.West.Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Angelo Rajadurai <angelo@oasis.West.Sun.COM>
To: wdc@MIT.EDU
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU, angelo@oasis.West.Sun.COM
Bill:
The "-v" option should give you the required result. I did not realize the
amount of change that has to be done to incorporate the -noblank option.
Let me know how this works.
PS: I would be out of office from 7/22 to 7/24 and on 7/28. So please page me if
you need to get in touch with me.
--Angelo
>Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:39:43 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
>To: Angelo Rajadurai <angelo@oasis.West.Sun.COM>
>Subject: Re: We want to change Solaris 2.6 monitor power saving.
>Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
>
>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
