edguer@alpha.ces.cwru.edu (Aydin Edguer) (09/27/89)
Does anyone have a screen-blanking program for the DECStation 3100, that does not run under X-windows? Aydin Edguer +1 216 368 6123 edguer@alpha.ces.cwru.edu Department of Computer Engineering, Crawford Hall, Case Western Reserve Univ.
steve@fnord.umiacs.umd.edu (Steve D. Miller) (10/10/89)
For those interested in a DECstation 3100 screensaver (and some pretty bad documentation on how the pm framebuffer works), go grab the file pub/dsscreensave.shar via anonymous FTP from fnord.umiacs.umd.edu (128.8.120.3). There is a compressed version there, too, but neither version is big. My program will either blank the screen or bounce an X11 bitmap around, and will do so until a key is pressed or until the mouse is moved. I have some getty hacks in the distribution (for those with sources) that will allow getty to run this automatically when no one is logged in. If someone wants to hack this to behave like the Sun 'screenblank' program, I'd be interested in taking the changes back. This screensaver uses about 68K of memory when running. This is a big improvement over 1.2MB for an X server... especially if your file server has a display, and you'd like to get that memory back. -Steve Spoken: Steve Miller Domain: steve@umiacs.umd.edu UUCP: uunet!mimsy!steve Phone: +1-301-454-1808 USPS: UMIACS, Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742