Re: Xfce's screen saver

On 11/11/2008 08:23 PM, Hactar wrote:
In article <bafnu5x8i1.ln2@xxxxxxxx>,
Sidney Lambe <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
["Followup-To:" header set to comp.os.linux.misc.]
Hactar <ebenZEROONE@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have Ubuntu 8.04, with Xfce as the environment in X. I cannot get
Xfce's screen saver to engage. X's (as controlled with xset) works fine,
but it's boring. DPMS works, except that if I change xfce's control for
it, it gets disabled (all times in xset go to 0). Anyone know a solution
to either of these problems?
So you are worried about what's on the screen when you
aren't looking at it?

Just because I'm not sitting at the computer doesn't mean I don't
occasionally glance at it.

I just turn my monitor off when I'm not using it.
Can't see any point in wasting energy on something
that I'm not using.

I have DPMS kick in at a half hour; same deal.

No one has ever complained about the blank screen.

If they did, I'd think they had a loose screw or two.

All black = good for CRTs, but worst-case (in terms of power
consumption) for LCDs.

I think, the manual page for xorg.conf has enough of information, here are requisite excerpts from relevant sections:

Section "ServerFlags"
...
Option "BlankTime" "5" # in minutes
Option "StandbyTime" "5" # vsync, nearly instant recovery
Option "SuspendTime" "5" # hsync, typically 3s recovery
Option "OffTime" "5" # poff, typically 10s recovery
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
...
Option "DPMS" "true"
EndSection


All you need to do is add the above said options and, or change the same per your needs; this generally is applicable to X server -- display or video drivers and not specific for XFCE, KDE and GNOME etcetera.

Please note, that the LCD monitors recover quite quickly compared to the CRT monitors.

IMHO, only blanking a display is the best screen-saver ever made.

Hope that helps,
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