Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] About Xscreensaver

[amjjawad HOOHAA]

>
> 1 thing I will change for 12.04 is to change the behavior by default,
> using *only a blank screen instead of the animated one*. It should be
> nicer for your type of configuration.


+1



On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Julien Lavergne  wrote:

> Le 12/23/2011 10:16 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a écrit :
> > It has been pointed in the past, that for old machines Xcreensaver
> > makes everything sluggish (i can make proof of it because some
> > installations of Lubuntu have crashed because it tries to launch
> > xcreensaver and everything falls apart AND in my pentium 3 @1000mhz
> > the first thing i cut is the screensaver because it slows the whole
> > system)
> > If I remember correctly, drop xcreensaver was a bad idea just for the
> > blocking screen.
> > I've been using a little Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm wondering if they still
> > use a screensaver at all. Maybe they are using something different
> > just to block the screen?
> > If yes, maybe we could use the same thing and cut xcreensaver from
> > Lubuntu.
> >
> They are using compiz to lock the screen, so we can't use the same :)
> 1 thing I will change for 12.04 is to change the behavior by default,
> using only a blank screen instead of the animated one. It should be
> nicer for your type of configuration.
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] About Xscreensaver

[Jonathan Marsden]

On 12/23/2011 06:09 PM, ∅ wrote:

> Really? I've never had this problem, VM or not.
> 
> Which screensaver are you using? I'm using GLMatrix.


The default one does it for me, at least in virtualbox VMs.  Although I
usually don't notice it for weeks, because I leave only one such VM
running unles I am doing something fairly unusual, and on a quad core
CPU, having just one core wasting its time screensaving a VM doesn't
really make any noticeable difference to normal desktop usage at all --
then much much later, I run something that really taxes the CPU and can
use multiple threads, run top or htop, and there it is :)

Setting the xscreensaver default to blank screen seems like a good
solution, being (hopefully) straightforward to implement, and yet
reducing the unwanted CPU load very substantially.

Jonathan

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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] About Xscreensaver

[∅]

Really? I've never had this problem, VM or not.

Which screensaver are you using? I'm using GLMatrix.

wxl/walter

On 12/23/2011 05:13 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Thanks Julien,
>
> I always forget to disable it and then wonder why my CPU usage on my
> latest VM install is driving my CPU so high after about 10 minutes
> when I am on my 'main' system.
>
> Less is more :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Julien Lavergne  > wrote:
>
> Le 12/23/2011 10:16 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a écrit :
> > It has been pointed in the past, that for old machines Xcreensaver
> > makes everything sluggish (i can make proof of it because some
> > installations of Lubuntu have crashed because it tries to launch
> > xcreensaver and everything falls apart AND in my pentium 3 @1000mhz
> > the first thing i cut is the screensaver because it slows the whole
> > system)
> > If I remember correctly, drop xcreensaver was a bad idea just
> for the
> > blocking screen.
> > I've been using a little Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm wondering if they
> still
> > use a screensaver at all. Maybe they are using something different
> > just to block the screen?
> > If yes, maybe we could use the same thing and cut xcreensaver from
> > Lubuntu.
> >
> They are using compiz to lock the screen, so we can't use the same :)
> 1 thing I will change for 12.04 is to change the behavior by default,
> using only a blank screen instead of the animated one. It should be
> nicer for your type of configuration.
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] About Xscreensaver

[Phill Whiteside]

Thanks Julien,

I always forget to disable it and then wonder why my CPU usage on my latest
VM install is driving my CPU so high after about 10 minutes when I am on my
'main' system.

Less is more :)

Regards,

Phill.


On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Julien Lavergne  wrote:

> Le 12/23/2011 10:16 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a écrit :
> > It has been pointed in the past, that for old machines Xcreensaver
> > makes everything sluggish (i can make proof of it because some
> > installations of Lubuntu have crashed because it tries to launch
> > xcreensaver and everything falls apart AND in my pentium 3 @1000mhz
> > the first thing i cut is the screensaver because it slows the whole
> > system)
> > If I remember correctly, drop xcreensaver was a bad idea just for the
> > blocking screen.
> > I've been using a little Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm wondering if they still
> > use a screensaver at all. Maybe they are using something different
> > just to block the screen?
> > If yes, maybe we could use the same thing and cut xcreensaver from
> > Lubuntu.
> >
> They are using compiz to lock the screen, so we can't use the same :)
> 1 thing I will change for 12.04 is to change the behavior by default,
> using only a blank screen instead of the animated one. It should be
> nicer for your type of configuration.
>
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
>
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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] About Xscreensaver

[Julien Lavergne]

Le 12/23/2011 10:16 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a écrit :
> It has been pointed in the past, that for old machines Xcreensaver
> makes everything sluggish (i can make proof of it because some
> installations of Lubuntu have crashed because it tries to launch
> xcreensaver and everything falls apart AND in my pentium 3 @1000mhz
> the first thing i cut is the screensaver because it slows the whole
> system)
> If I remember correctly, drop xcreensaver was a bad idea just for the
> blocking screen.
> I've been using a little Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm wondering if they still
> use a screensaver at all. Maybe they are using something different
> just to block the screen?
> If yes, maybe we could use the same thing and cut xcreensaver from
> Lubuntu.
>
They are using compiz to lock the screen, so we can't use the same :)
1 thing I will change for 12.04 is to change the behavior by default,
using only a blank screen instead of the animated one. It should be
nicer for your type of configuration.

Regards,
Julien Lavergne

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