Re: Auto-disabling screen saver on Alpha VMS V7.3-2, DWMOTIF V1.3-1?

From: FredK (fred.nospam_at_nospam.dec.com)
Date: 10/03/05 

Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2005 12:53:54 GMT

"Steven M. Schweda" <sms@antinode.org> wrote in message
news:05100215301865_20216D9F@antinode.org...
> From: Paul Sture <paul.sture@decus.ch>

> Done (again). So far, the screen waster settings have persisted, but
> having "Dtsession*PreferBlank: 1" in both
> SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR.DT.SESSIONS.CURRENT]DT.SETTINGS;2 and
> SYS$SYSROOT:[SYSMGR.DT.SESSIONS.CURRENT_OLD]DT.SETTINGS;2 does not seem
> to have had the desired effect. When I came back after a sufficient
> wait, the power LED on the HP P1110 display was still green and there
> was still a dim raster.
>

Well, you have something screwed up. Just don't know what.

If you let a unlogged on screen set for 12 minutes or so until the
screen saver blanks it - does the monitor go into screen saver?

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