I was wondering if anyone knows of or is there something that will kick off
a textual based screensaver when a terminal/console has been idle for N
minutes?

I seem to remember pcvt having something like this LONG ago, back in the
1.0ish era of NetBSD, but it seems pcvt lost the feature along the way and
wscons doens't seems to have anything.

There are times I walk away from a build or console and there it sits for
days.....
My particular solution is I just add ; /usr/games/worms -d 200 -n 1 after my
make or whatever is going to take a while (if I remeber).

It would be neat if there was an option in screenblank to "do something"
aside from blank the screen.  However screenblank doesn't address a xterm,
ssh, serial terminal or telnet.

I would like to start with what is common (perhaps not obvious [to me])
before beginning to reinvent the wheel.

jam

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