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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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unicode-screensaver(6x) 				    unicode-screensaver manual					   unicode-screensaver(6x)

NAME
unicode - displays unicode characters SYNOPSIS
unicode [-display host:display.screen] [-visual visual] [-window] [-root] [-fps] [-foreground color] [-background color] DESCRIPTION
unicode-screensaver is a simple screensaver application that repeatedly randomly picks an unicode character and displays it in a very large font size together with its unicode code point and the character name. OPTIONS
-visual visual Specify which visual to use. Legal values are the name of a visual class, or the id number (decimal or hex) of a specific visual. -window Draw on a newly-created window. This is the default. -root Draw on the root window. -fps Display the current frame rate and CPU load. -background Set the background color (e.g. black, white, green, red). The default is white. -foreground Set the font color (e.g. black, white, green, red). The default is black. ENVIRONMENT
DISPLAY to get the default host and display number. XENVIRONMENT to get the name of a resource file that overrides the global resources stored in the RESOURCE_MANAGER property. SEE ALSO
X(1), xscreensaver(1) COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 by Joachim Breitner. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation. No representations are made about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. AUTHOR
Joachim Breitner X Version 11 Version 0.4 unicode-screensaver(6x)
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