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Date:      Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:01:03 +0100 (BST)
From:      "Kelvin Woods" <kelvin@zednought.net>
To:        "Bruce Alcock" <bruce.alcock@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: XScreenSaver
Message-ID:  <63625.204.104.55.244.1192615263.squirrel@webmail.zednaught.net>
In-Reply-To: <a028ad770710170048q9ac976eha0e341ad1b1dd809@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <a028ad770710170048q9ac976eha0e341ad1b1dd809@mail.gmail.com>

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On Wed, October 17, 2007 08:48, Bruce Alcock wrote:
> Hi
>
> My XScreenSaver is configured to come on and then a bit later suspend
> the
> monitors...now this works, but only sometimes actually gets around to
> suspending the monitors. I emailed the author a while ago about it and
> he
> suggested I turned on logging...there doesn't seem to be an option in
> XScreenSaver for logging, so my question is what logging is he talking
> about
> and how do I use it? (he thought the mouse was moving ever so slightly
> every
> now and then, but this isn't the case since I unplugged my mouse last
> night
> and it still didn't suspend)
>
> Thanks
> Bruce Alcock

Bruce,

Read the manpage "-verbose" option. Logging is sent to stderr, you
might need to pipe it to a file.

This might be a problem with ACPI rather than the XScreenSaver
software itself.

-- 
Kelvin
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