Gerben.Wierda@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Gerben Wierda) (06/05/91)
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Hi!
There have been some postings on screen dimming, and most of
them use an ioctl call on /dev/evs0 to set the brightness to 0. But that
doesn't dim the screen completely, and since my machine will be in a
kind of server mode and turned on for most of the time I like to get the
screen COMPLETELY black. Is there a way to do this? Like putting some
black picture on top?
And since I am posting, Another possibility would be that kind
of zero brightness that is offered know combined with a "block-mover"
screensaver that you see on macintosh, MS-windows and probably also
X-Windows. Has anybody seen that somewhere?
Thanks in advance.
Gerben
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internet: bbs.oit.unc.edu or 128.109.157.30eps@toaster.SFSU.EDU (Eric P. Scott) (06/06/91)
In article <4005@beguine.UUCP> Gerben.Wierda@bbs.acs.unc.edu (Gerben Wierda) writes: > There have been some postings on screen dimming, and most of >them use an ioctl call on /dev/evs0 to set the brightness to 0. But that >doesn't dim the screen completely, and since my machine will be in a >kind of server mode and turned on for most of the time I like to get the >screen COMPLETELY black. Is there a way to do this? Like putting some >black picture on top? Sure. Just create a screen-sized Nonretained window that autofills to black, and order it to the front of the highest tier. For a demonstration, try pft -s -f /path/to/a/file/containing/the/following 0 currentwindowbounds Nonretained window dup frontwindow currentwindowlevel exch setwindowlevel dup windowdeviceround setexposurecolor obscurecursor Above 0 2 index orderwindow 0 currentmouse { buttondown { exit } { yield 0 currentmouse 2 index eq exch 3 index eq and not { 500 { yield buttondown { exit } if } repeat obscurecursor } if } ifelse } loop pop pop { buttondown { yield } { exit } ifelse } loop Out 0 2 index orderwindow termwindow [The above is for 2.0/2.1 systems; if you're still running 1.0/1.0a, remove the line with the setwindowlevel. You might also need to replace both occurrences of "orderwindow" with "systemdict /orderwindow get exec"] -=EPS=-