On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Dec 1999, you wrote:
> >
> > Maybe off topic, I don't know. I'll respond anyway cuz I find the subject
> > interesting.
> > I tend to leave mine on all the time. When you turn your computer on and
> > off, the hardware heats up and cools down (expands and contracts). This
> > can make them break faster.
> > I usually turn off my monitor at night but that's mostly because the
> > screen saver is annoying when you're trying to sleep. I haven't done any
> > research on the subject, but I suspect turning the monitor off may be a
> > good idea anyway... correct me if I'm wrong.
> >
> My Linux box just kills the video after about 10-15 minutes
> of inactivity, so the screen saver isn't a problem to me.
> :-)
> John
>
It does that automatically outside of X but I didn't think it would do it
in X... although now that you mention it I remember hearing that Linux
supported power management...
Speaking of video, has anyone else had their screen saver "forget" their
password? It happened once a couple days ago when I was running the matrix
screen saver under KDE. After I'd typed in my pass for the hundredth time
using one finger and looking at the keyboard I finally ctrl-alt-backspced
out of X (which seems to defeat the point of having a screen saver
password in the first place, IMHO...)
DvB
