On Fri, 1 Apr 2016, [email protected] wrote:
No, i'm opening "Settings Manager" and clicking on "screen savers" icon in there. There are several to chose from, my favourite is a declious diaporama, that works with either RSS streams or a given folder.
Those are generally the stock g/x-screensaver choices. Even back then we were choosing "Blank" as the stock screensaver. The reasoning behond that is to start US with as profesional a look as possible... in this case as few toys as reasonable. (From Scott's reasoning to give an idea how long ago) When xubuntu moved to light screen saver that also defaults to "Blank", it just suits Studio already so we agreed. One of the reasons Xubuntu didn't like xss BTW, was the flaming icon for the login when locked (Ack! my computer says it's on fire!). I'm sure there were other reasons too...
I looked at my GF computer which is a clean ubuntustudio install 14.04 and well, i see screensavers there too. Fully funtional.
Yup, mine shows the same. I had to look though because I don't use them. The theory goes like this: The power management turns the monitor off after no use for a while... a screen saver does not show anything with the display powered down. It is not enough to enable a screen saver, the PM has to be turned off (we do this on my Yf's machine BTW, to have a clock in the room). So in a stock use, any SS besides blank does not really make sense.
The whole use of SS/PM on a studio system is something the audio world needs to look at. With 16.04, I do use the PM's presentation mode from the indicator's menu if I am recording/mixing to keep the screen from going away while I am working.
In my opinion, for production use, in most of the art creation fields. what we have now (Blank) is the right choice. If a buisness wishes to use their logo in a screen saver, they are already spending time creating the images and should also make sure they choose the best screen save for their use.
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