pateros@ecse.rpi.edu (Chuck Pateros) (01/30/91)
In version Beta 3a of the SysV, you could logout of a virtual screen, and the console screen would go blank. In version Beta 3j, when you logout of a virtual screen, you are informed of the fact with a big message. If you want your screen to be blank, however, you are out of luck. I modified the F10 virtual screen to have both the text and the background screens black to give me a nice screen blanker. The /etc/inittab line is below: F10:23:respawn:/etc/getscr -g10 -x800 -y600 -0 000 -1 000 term/con10 con # F10 Chuck Pateros Communication Research Laboratory Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute pateros@ecse.rpi.edu
ag@cbmvax.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) (01/30/91)
In article <|#!&?-*@rpi.edu> pateros@ecse.rpi.edu (Chuck Pateros) writes: >In version Beta 3a of the SysV, you could logout of a >virtual screen, and the console screen would go blank. > >In version Beta 3j, when you logout of a virtual screen, >you are informed of the fact with a big message. If you >want your screen to be blank, however, you are out of luck. > >I modified the F10 virtual screen to have both the text and >the background screens black to give me a nice screen >blanker. > >The /etc/inittab line is below: > >F10:23:respawn:/etc/getscr -g10 -x800 -y600 -0 000 -1 000 term/con10 con # F10 The message that appears when you logout of a virtual screen is actually suppose to be a menu of some sort so you can choose another screen to use (without using the ALT-FUNC key sequence). The line in /etc/inittab: S3::sysinit:/usr/amiga/etc/menud& is responsible for the current behavior. Remove its entry in the inittab or change menud to your liking. A better screen saver would activate when no virtual screen had received input after a certain time (say five minutes). Said program would run from inittab and keep track of idle times for each text screen (/dev/term/con*). When the timeout occurs it would create its screen and use SIOCFRONT to force it to the users view. The program would do something weird until a key was hit then close then screen and restart. Look at /usr/amiga/src/cmd/samp.c and /usr/amiga/src/cmd/fractal/* for examples on graphic screen I/O under Amiga Unix. Pax, Keith