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- From: szabo_p@maths.su.oz.au (Paul Szabo)
- Subject: Idle nodes? (was Re: automatic screen turn-off)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.041400.11601@ucc.su.OZ.AU>
- Sender: szabo_p@maths.su.oz.au (Paul Szabo)
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- Reply-To: szabo_p@maths.su.oz.au (Paul Szabo)
- Organization: Mathematics, University of Sydney
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 04:14:00 GMT
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- Is there a way to find out how long an Apollo node (i.e. the interactive
- user logged on the display) has been idle? It might be sufficient to find
- out whether the screen has been blanked out or not (with due regard to the
- setting of scrto). Does anyone know the trick?
-
- In article <BtuqtL.Jor@apollo.hp.com> ganek@apollo.hp.com (Dan Ganek)
- writes:
- > 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_$video_ctl();
-
- I cannot find any documentation on the gpr_$video_ctl call. (Not that I
- would need it at the moment.)
-
- Thanks in advance,
-
- Paul Szabo - System Manager // School of Mathematics and Statistics
- szabo_p@maths.su.oz.au // University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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