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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Get Black Screen for 10secs Post 302291401 by c_d on Wednesday 25th of February 2009 02:18:47 PM
Old 02-25-2009
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Originally Posted by cfajohnson

Configure your screensaver to do it. It's not a scripting problem.
well,yes,i could configure my screensaver to lock-up my screen every 10mins...but how would i be able to make the screensaver go away automatically after 10seconds?
 

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TERMSAVER(1)															      TERMSAVER(1)

NAME
Termsaver - A simple text-based terminal screensaver SYNTAX
termsaver [SCREEN] [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION
is a simple alternative for simulating command-line based screensavers right on the terminal, in text-based format. To start the screensaver, execute Termsaver command with proper options as described in detail below, and to close it, just use the stan- dard Ctrl+C to interrupt it (or close the terminal window if you are on a desktop environment and no longer need it). SCREEN
The Termsaver application, to work properly, requires a screen as argument, which represents the name of the screensaver to be loaded. Each in turn, will have its own set of optional arguments, documented in its help option. Here follows a list of currently available screens (note that this information might become outdated if updates are not fully documented here, so always rely on the help option to display all screens available): quotes4all displays recent quotes from quotes4all.net asciiartfarts displays ascii images from asciiartfarts.com (NSFW) rssfeed displays rss feed information clock displays a digital clock on screen randtxt displays word in random places on screen dot displays a random running dot rfc randomly displays RFC contents programmer displays source code in typing animation urlfetcher displays url contents with typing animation jokes4all displays recent jokes from jokes4all.net (NSFW) matrix displays a matrix movie alike screensaver Refer to help option for additional information for each screen usage and example. OPTIONS
This program follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. -h, --help Displays this help message -v, --verbose Displays python exception errors (for debugging) EXAMPLES
Check all available screens to use: termsaver --help Run random text screensaver with extra arguments: termsaver randtxt --word HelloWorld --delay 1 SEE ALSO
See more information about this project at: http://termsaver.info COPYRIGHT
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. AUTHORS
Termsaver was written by Bruno Braga <bruno.braga@gmail.com>. BUGS
Report bugs to authors at: http://github.com/brunobraga/termsaver Termsaver 22 March 2012 TERMSAVER(1)
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