Subject: Re: Screen Saver
To: Francis Fang <ffang@grover.printing.uiowa.edu>
From: Ken Nakata <kenn@romulus.rutgers.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/17/1996 17:56:39
> Does anyone have a screen saver that works on the console screen?

No, there is none.  At least not for now.  MacOS screen savers don't
work on MacBSD because the machine is completely taken over by MacBSD
and there's no MacOS code (except the ADB routines called by the ADB
driver) running after the take-over happens.

If you run X, you'll have the default screen saver (which just fills
the screens with black pixels after certain amount of inactivity) and
some more options (for further info, consult comp.windows.x FAQ for
instance), but for the console, you have to turn the monitor off by
your hand.

BTW, if X server can do it, dt should be able to do it with some
modifications.  Anybody wanna try? ;-)

ken