[mythtv] Request - disable screensaver
Mikael Magnusson
mikma at hem.passagen.se
Tue Nov 18 19:54:23 EST 2003
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:52:25AM -0500, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
> On Monday 17 November 2003 20:27, Cliff Draper wrote:
>
> > 2. Screensavers are not consistent in X. I'm a little
> > disappointed
> > with this, as there are 3 separate protocols. There's the basic
> > blanker done with XActivateScreenSaver (`xset s on`). There's the
> > DPMS calls which try to change the power state of the monitor
> > (`xset +dpms`). And finally, there's the xscreensaver daemon (the
> > one with all of the pretty screensavers) which does not have an
> > official C API for talking to it. My changes deal well with the
> > first two, but xscreensaver is questionable. First, while it would
> > be very cool to see real screensavers (toasters flying, etc), do you
> > want this on a machine doing real time audio/video encoding where
> > you're trying to squeeze every last cycle out of your machine? It
> > would probably be fine on a dedicated frontend. Second, the way you
> > reset the timer on xscreensaver is ugly. See
> > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#dvd Basically to
> > disable
> > the screensaver, you're suppose to fork a process every minute and
> > run the xscreensaver-command to reset the timer. Any ideas on a
> > good way to deal with this?
>
> I wouldn't bother with xscreensaver -- there's really no need to be
> running it, and many desktop environments don't use it anyway. KDE
> has
> its own mechanism, and I presume Gnome has its own, too. I would just
> stick to the screen blanking & DPMS X mechanisms for now. I think
> most
> folks with dedicated frontends are running a lightweight window
> manager
> with no screensaver daemon, anyway.
No Gnome doesn't have its own. Xscreensaver is the default screensaver used in
Gnome, and at least two distributions that I have tried, Debian (unstable)
and Fedora Core 1.
Regards,
Mikael Magnusson
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