On Thu, Feb 21, 2019 at 01:45:31PM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote: > On Sat, 2019-02-09 at 11:53 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: > > Package: xfce4-screensaver > > Version: 0.1.3-2 > > > > I left home for the weekend, just ssh-ed in and I see: > > PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND > > 2375 root 20 0 823412 223376 169752 R 96.3 2.7 1946:54 Xorg > > 24967 kilobyte 20 0 31540 5736 4496 R 34.9 0.1 1:26.92 zoom > > 24966 kilobyte 20 0 31144 5188 4320 S 28.2 0.1 1:11.75 zoom > > > > The screen has been locked for nearly a day, thus it's obviously off (which > > I can't verify).
> I think you should be able to disable the screensavers or to just select > “blank screen” instead of letting xfce4-screensaver select a random one. That'd workaround the issue, yeah. > > Once the monitor gets suspended/slept/powered off, there's completely no > > point in drawing anything. On the other hand, a computer with two cores > > worth of activity for a prolonged time wastes a significant amount of > > electricity, which is bad both for the environment and for users' wallets. > > > > Thus: could you please stop spawning new "draw something" processes once > > the saver has gone past the first (visual) stage? > > Agreed, but this is likely a bug in mate-screensaver (or whatever the code > originally comes from). Jonathan, could you take a look? > > Honestly I'd be just fine in just disabling all the screensavers and only keep > blank screen. Do you mean dropping them all by default, or just after the powersave kicks in? The latter would keep the eyecandy when there's a human around. Not that the eyecandy distraction feature is so vital... Just blanking the screen is probably as good. I need *-screensaver as a sane locker (ie, anything _but_ light-locker), not for its visual appeal. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Have you accepted Khorne as your lord and saviour? ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀
