I first wanted to say that I've also seen that behaviour. Now, I'd also like to point out that the second part of your bug isn't strictly true. I believe that the default settings blank out the screen after a certain amount of time (I think it's either 30 minutes or an hour), so after that time the screensaver will stop draining CPU. However, having high CPU usage during idle time is not something desirable on laptops, so it might be interesting to modify the default blank out time if a laptop is detected.
Finally, three possible workarounds if you want to have screensavers and still have low CPU usage: 1) Select a specific non-draining screensaver/blank screen (doh!) 2) Substitute gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver. The added configurability might also help (doh! number one revisited) 3) Uninstall rss-glx. This will remove the 3D screensavers, which are usually the life-draining ones. (doh! This Miguel guy doesn't look really bright) -- screensavers cause high CPU usage https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/174191 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
