[1371] in Release_7.7_team
Re: We want to change Solaris 2.6 monitor power saving.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Jul 21 22:44:22 1998
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 21 Jul 1998 15:39:43 EDT."
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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 22:44:18 EDT
[Angelo dropped from cc list]
> 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.
Um, Bill, that's what the global dotfiles in /usr/athena/lib/init are
for. I think we're probably better off throwing up a big X than
leaving whatever's on the screen there. OTOH, years ago we used to
use the big X and not screen blanking. Anyone remember why we
stopped?
Jonathon
