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Do you use xscreensaver hacks? |
Yes! |
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45% |
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No -- blank screen only. |
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29% |
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I don't use xscreensaver. |
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24% |
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Tazmanian Apprentice
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 8:06 am Post subject: Minimal xscreensaver? |
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I personally find the xscreensaver hacks to be quite annoying and never use them. A plain old blank-screen is all I want. I'm sure there are many out there who share the same sentiment. Is there any way we can have a minimal xscreensaver ebuild that doesn't build the screen hacks? Or a USE flag or something?
Just a thought. ![Smile :)](images/smiles/icon_smile.gif) |
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 11:07 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | Is there any way we can have a minimal xscreensaver ebuild that doesn't build the screen hacks? |
Code: | xset dpms force off | ![Question :?:](images/smiles/icon_question.gif) |
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Tazmanian Apprentice
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Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2004 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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bmichaelsen wrote: | Code: | xset dpms force off | ![Question :?:](images/smiles/icon_question.gif) |
While this blanks the screen, it doesn't lock the terminal. |
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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I use xscreensavers at home - my family love those 4D cubes and gravitated galaxies.
At work our server-room is phisically closed, all access (even keyboard access, power swtches and movements) is logged, the door can be opened only with a special access key and it close itself right the way. The door-lock is much better than any window-lock ![Smile :)](images/smiles/icon_smile.gif) _________________ "Lisp is a programmable programming language." - John Foderaro, CACM, September 1991 |
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Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2004 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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On machines that are slower or have a not-so-good graphics card, I use hacks that aren't very resource intensive such as phosphor or BSOD With good graphics cards, I pick one or two good opengl ones and disable the rest. Also set to turn off the monitor after a couple minutes of nothing happening after that on either set up. _________________ We don't need no stinkin' signatures. |
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 3:50 am Post subject: |
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I voted "yes" here because I do use some Xscreensaver hacks. However, I think the list could be seriously pared down. We don't need 500 variations on "colored dots/lines represent esoteric math functions". We need about 10 of the best openGL hacks (including GLMatrix and most of rss-glx), as well as Phosphor, BSOD, and a few other 2D hacks. That's it. Make the rest a seperate package, like xscreensaver-extra, or something.
...and while I'm wishing, can someone please redo the password dialog in GTK instead of that awful pseudo-motif style it uses now? ![Very Happy :D](images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif) |
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ank Apprentice
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Posted: Wed Jan 07, 2004 4:06 am Post subject: |
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I don't use xscreensaver. My monitor goes stand-by after 15 mins. |
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