topic Re: Screen saver timer in Operating System - OpenVMS

Screen saver timer

stinehelferw — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:16:21 GMT

Is there a facility to implement a timer that displays on the DECW screen saver to allow a system admin to know how long a screen has been paused?

Alternatively, is there a system process that can be monitored on a given node?

Re: Screen saver timer

John Gillings — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:01:58 GMT

I think it depends on your version of DECwindows and which window manager you're using. IIRC for some there's a specific image you run as the screen saver, and you can write your own to do whatever you like.

If you need further details, please post more information about your versions and architecture.

Re: Screen saver timer

stinehelferw — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 23:14:05 GMT

OpenVMS 8.3

Alternatively, writing a script to run on a single node of a small network to monitor the LOCKSREEN process.

Re: Screen saver timer

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 06:43:44 GMT

You could use lexicals to find all processes having image dtscreen.exe, which is the screen saver/locker.

Wim

Re: Screen saver timer

Wim Van den Wyngaert — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 07:23:48 GMT

Here is an DCL example.

Wim

Re: Screen saver timer

stinehelferw — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:29:52 GMT

thank you.
i'll give this a whirl.