On Wednesday, October 12, 2011 20:43:41 Thomas Lübking wrote: > Am Tue, 11 Oct 2011 21:46:40 -0400 schrieb Michael Pyne <mp...@kde.org>: > > Yes. KDE asciiquarium (feel free to look at the copyright headers for > > that in kdeartwork someday... ;) > > Errr... rather not. The author, *cough* who ever he might be *cough* > has apparently so far not found the time to implement the resize event, > so basically it's the only screensaver hack which can *not* simply be > run in fullscreen mode for sheer entertainment only.
Sure it can. Just click "Test" in the Display & Monitor screen saver options. ;) There's probably some DBus call to do the same thing. I will admit that resize is not supported, mostly because scaling down the text makes it completely impossible to see. Probably this could work with gamma correction but I haven't tried it yet (and no one has ever reported a bug about that...) > If you happen to meet him and he should actually require guidance in how > to fix that, he may just call back. *cough* I'm open to suggestions. > > Yes I do. It's nice to be able to walk away from the computer and let > > my [...] son move the mouse around or watch the > > fish move and know that there's at least a half-decent chance he > > hasn't deleted all my files by the time I got back. > > I think we've a fundamental misunderstanding about "screensavers" here. > > The thread span off because Torgny questioned "no screensaver w/o > locking" and i replied there's no point in that (since protecting the > screen isn't required and you can just trigger the show yourself to see > it w/o any locking facilities) Sure, but whatever process is waiting to lock the screen normally should be the same process to start a screensaver w/o locking the screen. I'm fully aware that they can be done independently, and I know that what Martin is talking about is just the locking mechanism and not screensavers proper. I guess my point is pretty much the same actually: Locking and screensaver animations should be orthogonal -- it should continue to be possible to kick off the screensaver without forcing on the lock. > You do not walk away and just hope your child won't do any s...tuff > until the screensaver kicks in and -as a side effect- locks the screen, > do you? No. You lock the screen (what as a side effect launches the > undersea show), ensure your son has a good seat and sight and then > leave, right? If I walk away then this is exactly what I do. I did used to have the mouse corner feature that would enable an unlocked screensaver setup but I disabled that due to too many false positives. ;) > The worst thing that actually *could* happen (i don't think so, but the > tech details of a final solution are still discussed in the parenting > thread) is that the locking visuals (w/ compositing, security reasons) > only work as kwin plugin, ie. the asciiquarium would have to be ported > once more. I'm willing to port it if necessary, but like you say the final design is still being fleshed out.
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