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15 <H2><A NAME="s19">19. Screensaving</A></H2>
19 screensaving!controlling
25 <P><CODE>setterm -blank</CODE> <I>nn</I> will tell the console driver to blank the
26 screen after <I>nn</I> minutes of inactivity. (With <I>nn</I> = 0, screensaving
27 is turned off. In some old kernels this first took effect after the next
29 <P>The <CODE>s</CODE> option of xset(1) will set the X screensaving parameters:
30 <CODE>xset s off</CODE> turns off the screensaver,
31 <CODE>xset s 10</CODE> blanks the screen after 10 minutes.
32 <P>The video hardware powersaving modes can be enabled/disabled
33 using the <CODE>setvesablank</CODE> program given in the starting comment of
34 <CODE>/usr/src/linux/drivers/char/vesa_blank.c</CODE>.
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