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grant123 Veteran
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Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:10 am Post subject: Screen Saver and DPMS overlap? |
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What is the point of the built-in screensaver? Doesn't DPMS manage the same thing?
# xset q
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Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 600
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DPMS (Energy Star):
Standby: 0 Suspend: 0 Off: 600
DPMS is Enabled
Monitor is On |
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audiodef Watchman
Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 6639 Location: The soundosphere
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grant123 Veteran
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:13 am Post subject: |
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Does anyone know what the built-in "Screen Saver" is for? |
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Logicien Veteran
Joined: 16 Sep 2005 Posts: 1555 Location: Montréal
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Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:15 am Post subject: |
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Xorg give a lot of basics graphics applications not user friendly you can use. They are complementary to the main project. Because their objects are elementary, a lot of sophisticated and intuitive applications for the same purpose can be more attractives. Then you can disable the Xorg one. For example, Xscreensaver or Xlockmore instead of Xorg DPMS.
The Xorg project focus on graphic server, not on window manager or desktop environment. _________________ Paul |
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grant123 Veteran
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Posted: Thu Sep 20, 2012 11:57 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | For example, Xscreensaver or Xlockmore instead of Xorg DPMS. |
Can xlockmore turn the screen completely off like DPMS can? |
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