8/7/2023 0 Comments Xscreensaver 5.15And the one computer (out of three) that I have access to that doesn't overheat constantly is an old laptop that uses the radeon graphics driver, which I gave up on ever finding someone willing to help me configure in the way that I needed so it bogs whenever anything more complicated than just sitting there is required - and it's got a Pentium 4 in it which makes the situation worse. Along with a small but measurable increase in the amount of waste heat produced. But you're correct, there's more waste than that. I was only thinking of the extra energy involved in lighting up the display vs. Of course an animated screen saver uses more electricity than no screen-saver. All you have to do is add those wasted pennies up, consider the multitude of aches and pains, and think about what percentage of them were created to equal those added-up pennies. We can't all be rich - most people in my family would immediately find their eyes glazing over if they heard anyone say anything to the effect that wasting "pennies" was ever a non-issue, lol. There have been plenty of times that I couldn't afford a loaf of bread. A few pennies per hour, for every hour that the computer runs each day, over the course of a month would buy a loaf of bread at least. But it's all relative, isn't it? Aside from the fact that if the couple billion people with computers changed all their screen-"savers" to screen-blankers, the electricity saved would be rather substantial - and the fact that a lot of electricity is still produced by destroying finite resources. Last edited by MountainDewManiac ( 16:47:30)Īnd I really doubt that your monitor is using more than a few pennies worth of energy per hour. Is there a FAQ or How-to stating the steps people need to take to make all this go away and bring back the simple and functional previous "blank screen when not doing anything, but don't blank it when watching videos (even if the user CBA to wiggle the mouse cursor every few minutes) - and lose the pretty little time-wasters?" Not knowing what to do, I click on Cancel and then close the Screensaver Preferences box. Stop the GNOME screen saver daemon now?" and it has two buttons, Cancel and OK(sic). It must be stopped for XScreenSaver to work properly. When I click on that, I get a box titled "Screensaver Preferences (XScreenSaver 5.15, 2)" - in addition to this box, I get another box on top of that one that states "Warning: The GNOME screensaver daemon appears to be running. I looked and the only thing I found in the menu that mentioned screen-saver was /Settings/Screensaver. I wanted to put everything back to the way it was when it worked right. Worse, it even does it while viewing a video in fullscreen. Now, instead of my screen simply blanking, it does one of those animated screen-"saver" electricity-waster gizmos. When viewing a fullscreen video in VLC, the screen did not blank (I'm almost certain) - which was also fine. Everything is fine except that I seem to now have.īefore, after a few minutes of inactivity, the computer's screen blanked. I accepted them a couple days ago ( EDIT: I think they were from the Xfce 4.10 PPA. There were some new updates in my update manager.
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