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DOME DPMS screen saver
Display Power Management Signaling (DPMS) provides
a standard way to manage the power used by your display.
The DOME DPMS screen saver for Windows NT offers a
powerful and flexible way to increase the life of your display
and decrease its power consumption.
How the screen saver works
Like other Windows screen savers, the DOME DPMS Screen
Saver is invoked after the system has received no user input
for a specified number of minutes. Unlike other screen savers,
however, the DOME DPMS screen saver does not show
anything on the display itself. Rather, it launches another
screen saver that you select to protect the display. Then, after
a predetermined number of minutes, it uses DPMS to shut off
the video power to the display.
There are two delay periods before DPMS is invoked:
• First, the standard screen-saver delay from the last user
input until the screen saver launches.
• Second, from the time the screen saver launches to the
moment DPMS shuts off the video power to the display.
After this delay, DPMS places the display in power-off
mode.
The DOME DPMS Screen Saver allows you to select the other
screen saver to use before it invokes power-off mode. It also
allows you to specify up to four periods during the day with
different settings if or when power-off mode is invoked during
each period.
