From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 9 19:31:07 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id TAA08447 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 19:31:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from freenet.hamilton.on.ca (main.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.65]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id TAA08440 for ; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 19:30:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca [199.212.94.66]) by freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA03658; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 22:30:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (ac199@localhost) by james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA09762; Sat, 9 Nov 1996 22:32:29 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: james.freenet.hamilton.on.ca: ac199 owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 9 Nov 1996 22:32:28 -0500 (EST) From: Tim Vanderhoek To: "G.J.A. de Veer" cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: screensaver In-Reply-To: <199611091939.UAA23792@IAEhv.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sat, 9 Nov 1996, G.J.A. de Veer wrote: > Now I looking for a simple screensaver to get de screen blank after a > ildetime of 5 or 10 min. type `ee /etc/sysconfig', press CTRL-E to search for the string "saver", and edit the line "blanktime" and the line "saver" as per instructions shown. Then save the file and reboot. This won't work if you are running X Windows. If you are, then you need not reboot, but you must run `beforelight' or some similar program. The ports collection has a port a screensaver, I think. Putting `xscreensaver&' into your .xinitrc is probably easiest. > Can you advice me, where I can find a simple screensaver our the syntax to > use the "internal" screensaver. Yes. See above. -- Outnumbered? Maybe. Outspoken? Never! tIM...HOEk