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- From: ganek@apollo.hp.com (Dan Ganek)
- Subject: Re: automatic screen turn-off
- Sender: usenet@apollo.hp.com (Usenet News)
- Message-ID: <BtuqtL.Jor@apollo.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 14:27:21 GMT
- References: <1992Aug30.133826.14811@lmpsbbs.comm.mot.com>
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- Joshua Beinhorn sez:
-
- >My apollo screen is generally turned-off when there is no user input
- >for some period of time. This is a desirable feature, which protects
- >the screen from being burnt.
- >
- >However, in some cases the screen is not turned off even if there is
- >no user input for hours. In particular, This happens when there is one
- >window which covers all the screen.
- >
- >What are the conditions which enable / disable automatic screen turn-off?
-
- Under the DM and Xapollo the following events will unblank the
- screen: (I don't know about Xdomain)
-
- 1) Keyboard/mouse input
- 2) Window reconfiguration, i.e. create, delete, move, resize, etc.
- (Graphical output to a window will NOT unblank the screen.)
- 3) Program call to gpr_$video_ctl();
-
- So, perhaps the app your running in the full screen window is calling
- gpr_$video_ctl. Does it happen if your grow an ordianry DM pad to full
- screen?
-
- /dan
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