Tim wrote: >>> At least one handy thing about it is that it's a simple thing to look at >>> that shows that the computer hasn't crashed. David Timms: >> Or it would be if it showed the seconds ticking over... a minute is a >> long wait to get an idea about whether the machine has hung. Patrick O'Callaghan: > I think the question is whether the time shown on the screen is close to > the current time. Yes, I'm thinking more of: At some time you glance at an idle box, see the clock, and notice that it appears fine or jammed up some time ago. Rather than watching a box just waiting for activity. > However an easier way is just to run an animated screen saver. I'm not sure that you could do that on the log-in screen, nor whether that'd be a good idea for security reasons, though it would be for real screen *saving* reasons. -- (This computer runs FC7, my others run FC4, FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread.) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
