NAME

blanktime − set the screen blanking timeout

SYNOPSIS

blanktime nframes

DESCRIPTION

The screen of the iris will normally blank (turn black) if the system receives no input events for about 15 minutes.  This is done to protect the color display.  blanktime makes it possible to change the time before the screen is blanked, or disable the screen blanking feature completely.  The argument nframes specifies the screen blanking timeout in frame times.  Since there are 67 frames per second on the standard 60 Hz monitor, nframes should be 67 times the number of seconds that the system should wait before blanking the screen.  If nframes is given as 0, screen blanking is disabled. 

EXAMPLE

blanktime 6700

makes the screen blank if no input device is touched for 100 seconds. 

Version 2.5  —  April 22, 1987