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- From: dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil (David P. Kemp)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Sun Screen Savers
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.010949.6115@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 01:09:49 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.160518.20921@eng.ufl.edu> <1992Jul23.211248.15364@wl.com>
- Organization: The Great Beyond
- Lines: 23
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- In article <1992Jul23.211248.15364@wl.com> duffiem@wl.com (Mark Duffield) writes:
- >
- >Does Sun say why this is a bad idea? We do it here and seems to work fine.
- >
-
- It's running fine on most of our machines too, but one possible reason
- not to run it is crash diagnosis - if your screen is blank when the machine
- wedges, it's hard to see what happened.
-
- Our servers don't run screenblank for that reason. My personal machine doesn't
- run it either, since I like to watch the visual wallpaper generated by
- xlocktool without having screenblank blank it :-).
-
- If the professors stay logged in for days, xlocktool will start up xlock
- after an idle time (no menu action required). If they log out at
- night but don't power down the monitor, they'll need screenblank.
-
-
- --
- Dave Kemp dpkemp@afterlife.ncsc.mil
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