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Disable screensavers

From	"Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com>
Subject	Disable screensavers
Newsgroups	comp.sys.acorn.programmer
Date	2012-09-03 21:35 +0100
Message-ID	<52c9957508steve@revi11.plus.com> (permalink)
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Hi,

Screensavers were great on CRT and plasma monitors. They still add a bit of
interest, but something else they do is use up CPU and RISC OS machines
don't often have a lot of that available.

Things like ROM builds and scheduled backups can take quite a bit longer to
complete if a screensaver kicks in while they are running - and it usually
does for be because these are things that often happen when I'm not at my
machine.

So, is there a way to programmatically stop the screensaver kicking in (and
stop it if it's already running) and then restore it later? As in, fully
automatic and restores back to the same configuration. I don't want to just
smash the screensaver and then leave it to the user to configure it back on
again...

Thanks,

Steve

-- 
Steve Revill @ Home
Note: All opinions expressed herein are my own.

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Disable screensavers "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2012-09-03 21:35 +0100
  Re: Disable screensavers Martin Bazley <martin.bazley@blueyonder.co.uk> - 2012-09-03 22:23 +0100
  Re: Disable screensavers Justin Fletcher <gerph@gerph.org> - 2012-09-03 22:46 +0100
    Re: Disable screensavers "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2012-09-05 13:01 +0100
  Re: Disable screensavers Chris Johnson <chrisjohnson+news@spamcop.net> - 2012-09-03 23:10 +0100
  Re: Disable screensavers Jeremy Nicoll - news posts <jn.nntp.scrap007@wingsandbeaks.org.uk> - 2012-09-03 23:12 +0100
  Re: Disable screensavers spampling <spam.pling@btinternet.com> - 2012-09-03 23:25 +0100
    Re: Disable screensavers "Ste (news)" <steve@revi11.plus.com> - 2012-09-05 12:58 +0100

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