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Article #5Re: 4.0.{4,5} blankscreen(FALSE) doesn't reliably unblank screen
From: Dan Wallach
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 05:36
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 05:36
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In article <1992Dec14.230140.8608@news2.cis.umn.edu> slevy@noneuclid.geom.umn.edu (Stuart Levy) writes:
>Calling blanktime(0) alone worked under 3.3 and (I think) 4.0.1.
>But, when we upgraded to 4.0.4, it stopped working. Apparently if the
>display was already blanked, blanktime(0) would *not* re-enable it, and we'd
>spend hours recording only to find black video. So I changed that to
> blankscreen(FALSE);
> blanktime(0);
>but this was (sometimes? always?) ineffective -- the screen would remain blank.
Try using the xset command:
xset s noblank
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From: dwallach@zonker.cs.berkeley.edu (Dan Wallach)
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Subject: Re: 4.0.{4,5} blankscreen(FALSE) doesn't reliably unblank screen
Date: 16 Dec 1992 05:36:12 GMT
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