From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 20 10: 6:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.bezeqint.net (mail-b.bezeqint.net [192.115.106.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0543937B424 for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 10:06:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bsd.net.il (bzq-182-220.bezeqint.net) by mail.bezeqint.net (Sun Internet Mail Server sims.3.5.2000.03.23.18.03.p10) with ESMTP id <0FZL00J5SOTB18@mail.bezeqint.net> for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 20:05:40 +0300 (IDT) Received: (from nimrodm@localhost) by bsd.net.il (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA08970 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:57:15 +0300 (IDT envelope-from nimrodm) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2000 19:57:15 +0300 From: Nimrod Mesika Subject: Re: Screen Blanking 10min In-reply-to: <20000820094553.A62568@seanrees.com>; from sean@seanrees.com on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 09:45:53AM -0700 To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: nimrodm@email.com Message-id: <20000820195715.A8936@localhost.bsd.net.il> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i References: <20000820094553.A62568@seanrees.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 09:45:53AM -0700, Sean-Paul Rees wrote: > Have XFree 3.3.6 going great, however, every 10 minutes of "idle" (like, when > I'm watching TV fullscreen) the screen blanks. That is really irritating, > especially when watching TV. > > Is there a way to stop the screen blanking? > Well, my /etc/X11/XF86Config file has this line somewhere: Option "blank time" "10" # 10 minutes man XF86Config to get some info about this. Of course you can also use 'xset' to change that value at runtime. Just run 'xset' to get a list of its parameters. -- Nimrod. http://www.geocities.com/rodd_27 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message