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| <H2><A NAME="s19">19. Screensaving</A></H2> |
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| <P><CODE>setterm -blank</CODE> <I>nn</I> will tell the console driver to blank the |
| screen after <I>nn</I> minutes of inactivity. (With <I>nn</I> = 0, screensaving |
| is turned off. In some old kernels this first took effect after the next |
| keyboard interrupt.) |
| <P>The <CODE>s</CODE> option of xset(1) will set the X screensaving parameters: |
| <CODE>xset s off</CODE> turns off the screensaver, |
| <CODE>xset s 10</CODE> blanks the screen after 10 minutes. |
| <P>The video hardware powersaving modes can be enabled/disabled |
| using the <CODE>setvesablank</CODE> program given in the starting comment of |
| <CODE>/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/vesa_blank.c</CODE>. |
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