[wellylug] Console Screen Saver

Chris Hodgetts chris at archnetnz.com
Tue Apr 26 09:30:01 NZST 2005


/me will google. :)

Thanks again

David Antliff wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Chris Hodgetts wrote:
> 
>> Does that set it forever or just for the current power up session?
>> Or even for the user session?
>>
>> Ideally I would like it to not blank at the Login screen
>> (Yes I know about screen burn :) its a old monitor I never am going to 
>> use anyway, its like 800x600 only)
> 
> 
> I believe it applies only to the current virtual console and only until 
> that console is 'destroyed' so it won't survive a reboot. As for having 
> it come into effect before the login prompt, I'm fairly sure it can be 
> done, but I can't tell you how off the top of my head...  it can 
> probably be run by init and a line or two in /etc/inittab? Might need to 
> hack getty...
> 
> 




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