On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:25:20AM +0200, Sven Neumann wrote: > > The image slideshow screensaver in gnome-screensaver puts such a load on > > my laptop's CPU that the fan runs constantly and tasks such as music > > playing with totem become very choppy. > As far as I know the image slideshow is an f-spot thing so you should > really ask the f-spot developers. desktop-devel-list seems inappropriate > for this kind of questions.
f-spot isn't even installed on this machine. Are we talking about the same feature? <http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/debug/2007/05/29/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver.png> It seems like the image slideshow is part of the gnome-screensaver package, at least in Debian. The engine is /usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver/slideshow. f-spot seems to have its own, separate screensaver which, when installed, is /usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver/f-spot-screensaver. I'm not using that one. If this indeed is not a gnome-screensaver issue, though, where would I go since it's not f-spot? I also tried to find a more appropriate gnome list, but the only other possibility I could find was screensaver-list, which seems dead. On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 09:38:21PM -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > Have you checked if there's no other task running while the > screensaver is? I say this because maybe some app you are running > checks for idle time and starts some process. I'm pretty sure nothing else is running in the background. No google desktop or other indexing feature, no SETI, etc.. top/ps via ssh don't show any other unusual activity. The only tasks that are using appreciable CPU when the system is idle are /usr/lib/gnome-screensaver/gnome-screensaver/slideshow and /usr/bin/X (together they get up into 20-30% of CPU when the screensaver is running, taking ps snapshots every 15 seconds). On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:28:09AM +0200, Xavier Bestel wrote: > maybe I'm dumb but I never managed to make that screensaver work. All I > get is a black screen, and there's nowhere to set where too look for > pictures, and DnD doesn't work. > Is there something wrong on my system (debian/sid) ? I believe it is hard-coded to search ~/Pictures. Thanks for any further suggestions. Adam _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
