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- Introduction
- ============
-
- CGXDPMS - Now there's an acronym for you. ;) CGX stands for CyberGraphX,
- and DPMS stands for Display Power Management Signaling. So, this is a
- program that uses the DPMS feature in CyberGraphX.
-
- Anyway, this is a small program I hacked together the other day (hence the
- brief documentation ;). It is a small commodity that uses the DPMS function
- in your graphics card and monitor. I wrote it since the DPMS program I had
- seen was a bit large, and more importantly, didn't support all DPMS levels
- available in CyberGraphX. Hence CGXDPMS, which supports all three DPMS
- levels (and is a bit smaller).
-
- CGXDPMS can be used in addition to a normal screen blanker.
-
-
- Requirements
- ============
-
- First of all, you need a graphics card and a monitor that supports DPMS.
- You also need CyberGraphX (or compatible) installed. Other than that,
- nothing special is required (except AmigaOS then).
-
- If you use this with a graphics card that do support DPMS, but the monitor
- does not, I don't know what will happen. If anything gets damaged, don't
- blame me. And this brings us to...
-
-
- No warranty
- ===========
-
- There is no warranty for this software package. Although the author has
- tried to prevent errors he can't guarantee that the software package
- described in this document is 100% reliable. You are therefore using this
- material at your own risk. The author cannot be made responsible for any
- damage which is caused by using this software package.
-
-
- Usage
- =====
-
- The following arguments can be specified on the command line, or as
- tooltypes:
-
- CX_PRIORITY
- The priority (within Commodities). Changing this will probably not
- change the behaviour in any way, since CGXDPMS doesn't have any
- hotkey yet, but...
-
- STANDBYTIME
- The number of minutes of inactivity to wait before the (optional)
- standby mode should be activated. Default is 15 minutes. Specifying
- 0 will make CGXDPMS skip this mode.
-
- SUSPENDTIME
- The number of minutes of inactivity to wait before the suspended
- mode should be activated. This time starts counting after the
- standby mode is activated (if at all). Default is 15 minutes.
- Specifying 0 will make CGXDPMS skip this mode.
-
- OFFTIME
- The number of minutes of inactivity to wait before the off mode
- should be activated (erh ;). This time starts counting after the
- standby mode is activated (if at all). Default is 15 minutes.
- Specifying 0 will make CGXDPMS skip this mode.
-
- Note: Setting all the above times to zero is rather pointless to
- do, don't you think? ;)
-
- SENDSHIFT
- In order to stop a possible screen blanker from doing any
- uneccessary work, CGXDPMS will regularly emulate the pressing of
- the left shift key while the monitor is not "on". This should keep
- any screen blanker from going into action.
-
- Pressing the shift key shouldn't cause any problems, but here you
- can decide if it should be done or not.
-
- SHIFTTIME
- The number of minutes to wait between the emulated shift pressings.
- Default is 1.
-
- NOMOUSE
- If specified, then the CGXDPMS will not turn the monitor on when
- the mouse is moved. This only affects CGXDPMS while the monitor is
- not "on".
-
-
- The DONOTWAIT tooltype in the icon is for the Workbench, when placed in the
- Workbench startup drawer.
-
-
- Todo?
- =====
-
- Things that could be added, but I didn't consider to be important at the
- moment:
-
- o CGXDPMS assumes that it is the graphics card of the Workbench screen
- that should signal for power saving. Maybe this should be configurable
- (in the form of the name of a public screen), and also include support
- for multiple screens (for those with multiple cards).
-
- o A hotkey to go into power saving mode.
-
-
- Author and other things
- =======================
-
- CGXDPMS was written in 1997 by Magnus Holmgren. It is public domain (source
- included, though not very well documented ;), so you can do anything you
- like with it (although credits would be appriciated ;). Contact address:
-
- Snail mail:
-
- Magnus Holmgren
- Kvarnbergsvägen 5
- S-444 47 Stenungsund
- SWEDEN
-
- Electronic mail:
-
- cmh@lls.se
- 2:203/512.10@fidonet
-
- http://www.lls.se/~cmh/
-
-
- Version history
- ===============
-
- 1.0 May 7, 1997
-
- Initial release.
-
-