On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 16:23:36 -0300 Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset <[email protected]> wrote:
> Lubuntu team: > > Since Lubuntu is targeted for low-spec computers, xcreensaver is not a good > choice to use since it causes problems such as: > - In my three (old) machines I must kill the xcreensaver daemon in order to > be able to install the system. > - The idea is to make a good-looking effect but with older video cards the > screensaver hangs or it is terribly slow. > In fact in those three machines, once Lubuntu is installed I just remove > xcreensaver and let the power-manager doing the trick of shutting-off my > screen. It saves me from another app-running and the effect wanted is done > (and even better since it shutts the screen off, it doesn't blank it... so > it's *more energy efficiency for Lubuntu*) > Speaking about this to Julien he pointed me to a problem I haven't seen: > "lock the screen". > So, Googling a little i've found xtrlock, something very lightweigth to use > that locks the screen until you type your user pass: everything is locked > and your mouse pointer becomes a blue lock (but since the screen will be > off, you won't tell ;) > The way to implement this would be that as soon as the power-manager shuts > off the screen it launches the xtrlock... but this would take Lubuntu devs > to perform the task of coding it into the gnome-power-manager. > > I stop here, waiting for reactions and good-wellcoming :) > > I think I've commented before about screen-savers. I have never seen a justifiable reason for there existence apart from locking the machine if required.. They serve no other purpose, other than using energy, like you, I either disable or remove them from my machines. Your idea for locking the machine for those that require this function but, it's a bit late in the cycle for anything new to be implemented as feature freeze occurs at the end of the month. I would suggest putting it on launchpad as a feature request. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
