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Setting Up the Screensaver
Chapter 4: Color Terminals
Setting Up the Screensaver
The Color Maximus terminal features an automatic screen saver that is disabled by default. The
screen saver is designed to protect the terminal screen from burn-in during periods of
inactivity. After a preset period of time, the screen dims (becomes gray), and then the time and
optionally an image display and move around the terminal’s screen.
The screen saver is only controlled through a configuration file installed on the terminal:
/etc/ssaver.conf
.
You can use this to set the time to idle, sleep, roving duration, and 12/24 hour mode, and the
location of the logo. Open the
ssaver.conf
file in a text editor to view and change it.
Screen saver images must be ASCII raster files and stored in a specific location on the terminal.
Use the
ZZDLOAD
UCS command (see the
UCS Reference Guide
) or system-level commands
to add and remove these graphics files.
The logo must be a Windows bitmap (.BMP) file that is 250 pixels wide and 150 pixels high, or
smaller. The BMP must be saved as an 8-bit color palette but a maximum of 224 colors can be
used. (Some colors in the map are reserved for drawing the time digits, which use 32 shades of
gray.)
The
ssaver.conf
file has the following settings:
•
idletime
– Sets the number of seconds before idle mode activates after the last
time the terminal was used. Set this to 0 to disable idle mode. In idle mode, the
terminal’s display dims, but touch screen and key presses and badge swipes are
processed immediately. The default is 45 seconds.
•
sleeptime
– Sets the number of seconds after idle mode activates that sleep
mode activates. Set this to 0 to disable sleep mode. In sleep mode, the terminal’s
display turns black and displays a clock. To use the terminal, press a key (or a
touch screen, if applicable) to take the terminal out of sleep mode, and then
enter your keypad transactions. Unlike key presses, badge transactions are
processed immediately in sleep mode. The default is 45 seconds.
•
rovetime
– Rovetime sets how quickly the displayed moves around the terminal
screen when the terminal is in sleep mode. The default is 25 seconds.
•
mode
– Sets the display mode of the terminal. Set this to 12 to display a 12-
hour clock with an am or pm suffix. Set this to 24 to display a 24-hour clock. By
default or if an invalid entry is made, the clock displays in 12-hour format.
Set both idletime and sleeptime to 0 to turn off the screen saver.
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