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Re: Question re: Athena 9.4.51 release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Thu Jan 8 17:25:15 2009
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To: Noel Atkins <natkins@MIT.EDU>
cc: release-team@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:24:18 EST."
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Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:24:37 -0500
From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
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> On Tue, 2009-01-06 at 17:42 -0500, Noel Atkins wrote:
> > Would you be able to provide elaboration regarding "Displays will no
> > longer inhibit screen-blanking while idle." in the release notes?
>
> I believe this means that Athena workstation monitors will go into
> power-save mode when idle [...]
This is correct; it's part of a larger effort towards saving energy where
possible. It's still easily possible to disable this on a per-machine
basis; if, for instance, you want the Athena kiosk machines in 32 to
still display the idle screen, you can edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf (as root)
and change this line:
Option "dpms"
to:
Option "nodpms"
PS: speaking of those machines, I'm still trying to figure out why
control-L for idle user logout works elsewhere but not there. I'm
through there pretty frequently but haven't seen any wedged machines
lately; perhaps I'll have more data points when term starts again.
Andrew Boardman/DSPS/ISDA/IS&T/MIT +1.617.253.4040 amb@mit.edu
