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>>     Surely you don't want the screen saver to put the screen back up every
>>     time the clock ticks in a window.  
>>
>>  If I remember the story correctly from one of the X developers (Tony
>>  Della Fera??), xclock was originally written for just that purpose..
>>  so that the screen saver wouldn't keep blanking the screen when the
>>  display was sitting in the background at a trade show.

Almost  correct...  I wrote  the silly  thing (which  now suffers from
feature-itis)  to prevent   the   screen    saver from engaging     on
workstations that were running user registration  software out in  the
student clusters.  My manager said: "Give me anything that continously
updates the screen."  I suggested a clock.

You see, the students would see a VS100 with  a blank screen under the
"User Registration Terminal" sign and assume that it was broken!

						Tony...