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- From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Opinion: What IBM should change in OS/2
- Date: 8 Jan 1993 16:09:27 GMT
- Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
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- Steve Frampton (frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca) wrote:
- : About the only the I liked about Windows was that the Program Manager
- : blanked the screen after a certain period of keyboard and mouse
- : inactivity -- pressing any key or even just moving the mouse would
- : restore the screen.
- :
- : Gawd, I wish WPS did that!
- :
- : P.S. If it does, please don't flame me, but instead *please* tell me
- : how I can enable it!
- :
-
- It does. However, it also locks the keyboard. However, on a system for
- which security is not a concern, I have simply set the 'password' to the
- letter 'a'. So when the screen is blank, I move the mouse or press the shift
- key and enter a <enter> or simply while it is black I enter the a<enter> (
- moving the mouse and pressing a key shows the bitmap that was used to
- cover the screen).
-
- You enable it by clicking on the desktop, click the right button of the
- mouse and open the Settings notebook for the desktop. Select the
- lockup tab. Select Automatic backup and adjust the timeout period to
- your desires. At this time a dialog may appear asking for your password.
- You would enter it, press <enter> and then enter it again with a <enter>
- for verification and then close the dialog. The dialog doesn't always
- appear (apparently it appears if there is no password setup).
-
- Then click on the right arrow key in the lower right
- corner of the notebook. This displays what happens when the time out
- occurs. You can select a bitmap (any bmp file should do - it appears that
- it needs to be in /os2/bitmap), select if it is displayed normal, tiled, etc.
- Most important select auto dim. When the timeout occurs the bitmap is
- displayed and then slowly fades to black. Now click the right arrow again
- to get the third screen. This is the password screen. If you were asked
- for a password above, you can skip this. However, it can be used to
- change the password. As I said, I chose an easy to type easy to remember
- 'password', the letter 'a'. I hope that IBM will make a change that will
- enable the password part to be bypassed so that any key will reactivate
- the screen.
-
- Personally, on most of the systems I use, I am using DeskPic.exe which I
- picked up from compuserve (but it seems to be a lot of places). I like
- its animated blankers. One system seemed to have had trouble with
- DeskPic (after I had applied some patches last summer). I might try deskpic
- again now that I've installed a later release.
-