From: biff@biff.gbdata.com (Dwight Everhart)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
Subject: Re: Look for a Next screen saver
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 15:43:05 GMT

In article <1992Dec8.150318.11724@deepthought.uucp> Neil Greene  
<neil@ms.uky.edu> writes:
> In article <1992Dec7.194740.6530@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
> gcolello@biosphere.Stanford.EDU (Greg Colello) writes:
> > Ok. I've got BackSpace. I use it as a neat outer space backdrop to my  
> > workspace. But as far as I can tell BackSpace only acts like a screen  
> > saver while logged onto an individual account. It cannot act as a screen  
> > saver in the login panel mode. That's how we need it since our machines  
> > are in public use. Is there a way to make BackSpace a login mode screen  
> > saver? Right now we use the "bouncing login panel" as our login mode  
> > screen saver.
> 
> You may check the NeXT archives at f.ms.uky.edu for the source to adim.   
> It should be in ~ftp/pub/next/release-2.0/source.  It is a binary that  
> will set the screen level to a defined intensity level ( 0 = black ).   
> Works on the login panel as well.

I wrote a similar program that sets the intensity level to 0 after a  
specified amount of inactivity has passed.  It works whether or not someone  
is logged in.  I posted it earlier this year, but I'll do it again.  I don't  
have access to FTP right now, but if someone wants to put it on an archive  
site, feel free to do so.

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