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30.Dd April 8, 2019
31.Dt SCREENBLANK 1
32.Os
33.Sh NAME
34.Nm screenblank
35.Nd screen saver daemon for wscons and FBIO machines
36.Sh SYNOPSIS
37.Nm screenblank
38.Op Fl k | Fl m
39.Op Fl d Ar inactivity-timeout
40.Op Fl e Ar wakeup-delay
41.Op Fl f Ar framebuffer
42.Op Fl i Ar input-device
43.Nm
44.Brq Fl b | Fl u
45.Sh DESCRIPTION
46.Nm
47disables the framebuffer if the keyboard and mouse are idle for a period
48of time, and re-enables the framebuffer when keyboard or mouse activity
49resumes.
50.Pp
51When killed with a SIGINT, SIGHUP, or SIGTERM,
52.Nm
53will re-enable the framebuffer.
54The pid can be found in the file
55.Pa /var/run/screenblank.pid .
56.Pp
57The options are as follows:
58.Bl -tag -width indent
59.It Fl b
60Overriding the other options, simply try (once) to blank the
61framebuffer, then exit.
62.It Fl d Ar inactivity-timeout
63Wait the number of seconds specified by
64.Ar inactivity-timeout ,
65expressed in the format
66.Dq xxx.xxx ,
67before disabling the framebuffer due to inactivity.
68The default is 600 seconds (10 minutes).
69.It Fl e Ar wakeup-delay
70Wait the number of seconds specified by
71.Ar wakeup-delay ,
72expressed in the format
73.Dq xxx.xxx ,
74before re-enabling the framebuffer once activity resumes.
75The default is .25 seconds.
76.It Fl f Ar framebuffer
77Use the framebuffer device
78.Ar framebuffer
79instead of the default
80.Pa /dev/fb .
81.It Fl i Ar input-device
82Add
83.Ar input-device
84to the list of devices to monitor for activity.
85.It Fl k
86Do not check the keyboard for activity.
87.It Fl m
88Do not check the mouse for activity.
89.It Fl u
90Overriding the other options, simply try (once) to unblank the
91framebuffer, then exit.
92.El
93.Pp
94Note that the
95.Fl k
96and
97.Fl m
98flags are mutually exclusive.
99.Sh FILES
100.Bl -tag -width "/var/run/screenblank.pid  "
101.It /dev/kbd
102The keyboard device.
103.It /dev/mouse
104The mouse device.
105.It /dev/console
106The console device.
107.It /dev/fb
108The default framebuffer.
109.It /dev/wskbd
110The keyboard for wscons machines.
111.It /dev/wsmouse
112The mouse device for wscons machines.
113.It /dev/ttyE0
114The console device for wscons machines.
115.It /var/run/screenblank.pid
116File containing the pid of
117.Nm .
118.El
119.Sh CAVEATS
120.Nm
121checks the access and modification times of the devices it is
122monitoring to determine activity.
123If the devices are on a file system mounted with the
124.Cm noatime
125and/or
126.Cm nodevmtime
127options, it will not function as expected.
128A possible workaround is to use a script as such:
129.Bd -literal -offset indent
130#!/bin/sh
131/usr/sbin/screenblank -d 0 -e 0 && read
132/usr/bin/pkill screenblank
133.Ed
134