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Date:      Mon, 30 Dec 2019 18:22:09 +0100
From:      Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>
To:        starikarp@dismail.de
Cc:        ajtiM via freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vt console
Message-ID:  <20191230182209.f469e54e.freebsd@edvax.de>
In-Reply-To: <20191230120558.02ca91fb@dismail.de>
References:  <20191230120558.02ca91fb@dismail.de>

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On Mon, 30 Dec 2019 12:05:58 -0500, ajtiM via freebsd-questions wrote:
> Today I did read https://wiki.freebsd.org/Newcons and there are not any
> changes for " Screen saver         Unstarted"
> 
> Changes on the site are made I think in 2015. Do they plan or is it
> impossible to make "green saver" to works, please?

Forget about vt. If your system runs X, use X (and a screensaver
for X), as X forces you to use vt. If it does _not_ run X, switch
to sc and use the sc-based screensaver as it worked for decades.
I've been following this suggestion for some time now, and it
saves you lots of trouble and disappointment. :-/



-- 
Polytropon
Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...



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