[CLUE-Tech] Sawfish questions

Jed S. Baer thag at frii.com
Thu May 23 12:11:43 MDT 2002


On Thu, 23 May 2002 11:55:04 -0600
Tim Harris <tdharris at usa.com> wrote:

> Yeah, people keep saying this, but let me reiterate, this is not just in
> X.  It is also at the console level before I even start X, so I don't
> see how editing an X config file will help.  I'm getting insanely
> frustrated with linux as a desktop at this point if I can't do something
> as simple as adjust the black-out settings for my monitor.

Probably, the subject line "Sawfish questions" leads people to assume X,
as it is, after all, a window manager for X.

Noting also that setterm is a [console] terminal settings doodad. Looking
at the man page, it would appear to work for serial terminals, as well as
VESA, etc.

jed

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