On Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:41:59 +0200 Yves-Alexis Perez <cor...@debian.org> wrote:
> On mar., 2011-07-19 at 05:17 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: > > Package: xfce4-power-manager > > Version: 1.0.10-4 > > Severity: minor > > > > > > Power manager currently needs xscreensaver to lock the screen (or at > > least it's what is part of the xfce4 task). > > No, xfpm uses xflock4 which in turn uses what's running and falls back > to stuff like xlock. > > > > Instead power manager > > should use one of the simple screen lockers and manage the DPMS and > > blanking itself. For two reasons: a) it's somewhat confusing which > > DPMS settings will be used when xscreensaver is used along with > > xfce4-power-manager (at least I really don't know), > > xscreensavers messes with DPMS and there's no way to make it behaves > correctly, see #549551 for example. > > > and b) for laptops > > screensavers actually reduce battery power when on battery, and even > > without that for LCD monitors DPMS off is better than running a > > screensaver for screen longevity. (or so I've heard....) > > Then don't use xscreensaver at all? > What do you recommend? gnome-screensaver complains of no gnome-session for me, so that doesn't seem to be an option. -- <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C http://gnupg.org
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