[kde] Re: How to set up the screen saver to activate when the mouse is at a corner?
On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:42:42 gene heskett wrote: On Sunday, May 15, 2011 02:20:50 PM Marcelo Magno T. Sales did opine: Hello, There was an option in the screen saver configuration screen to activate the screen saver when the mouse was moved to a corner of the screen. When I updated from KDE 4.5.x to 4.6.x (Kubuntu), the screen saver stopped been activated when I place the mouse on the corner I had selected for that. This was working ok in 4.5.x. I see that the option to set this up does not exist in the screen saver configuration screen anymore. I noticed that, in System Settings, there is an applet named Workspace behavior (or something like that, I'm translating from brazilian portuguese), which has a Screen corners tab. There I can configure some actions to be started when the mouse is placed at a chosen corner, but activating the screen saver is not on the list of possible actions. Is there a way in KDE 4.6.x to set up the screen saver to be activated when the mouse is placed at one of the screen corners? Thanks, Marcelo Marcelo, I have no clue, and despite asking here and there, no has told me yet why x/kde turns off the DPMS such when it starts, leaving you only with the power wasting screen decorators. I wish it would i get sick of typing xset -dpms after ever single update So while this box runs 24/7, when I get up to go carve a stick of wood, it may be hours before I come back and I seen no earthly reason that the monitors backlight needs to have those hours or watts wasted to run it during those extended times when I am not around. I made me a ~/bin directory years ago to hold the stuff that I need as the lone user of this machine, and there are all sorts of things in there, some of which have largely been rendered moot by the making of ntpd in recent history so that it Just Works(TM). Anyway (and a copy is attached if the server passes it) -- #!/bin/bash xset +dpms sleep 1 xset dpms 0 0 450 -- That's it, 4 lines. Adjust the last value which is the DPMS powerdown time in seconds, to suit you, put it in your ~/bin (export PATH=~/bin:$PATH) and give it execute perms. If KDE had an init.d, which I haven't found, I would see if I could set it up to be the last thing that the kde/x startup does. As it is, I am reminded to run it from a konsole the first time I come back in the room find I am looking at the analog clock I use for a blanker. :( I have no clue where in the startup DPMS gets shut off, according to my Xorg.0.log, it is still enabled at the end of the x startup logging, but it will not work, and never has since kde4 came out, until I either run this script or do the 2 important 'xset' lines by hand from a konsole. Pete -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 19:51 up 4 days 18:47, 4 users, load average: 0.12, 0.22, 0.25 ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: How to set up the screen saver to activate when the mouse is at a corner?
On Sunday 15 May 2011 20:08:32 gene heskett wrote: On Sunday, May 15, 2011 03:06:21 PM Peter Nikolic did opine: On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:42:42 gene heskett wrote: On Sunday, May 15, 2011 02:20:50 PM Marcelo Magno T. Sales did opine: Hello, There was an option in the screen saver configuration screen to activate the screen saver when the mouse was moved to a corner of the screen. When I updated from KDE 4.5.x to 4.6.x (Kubuntu), the screen saver stopped been activated when I place the mouse on the corner I had selected for that. This was working ok in 4.5.x. I see that the option to set this up does not exist in the screen saver configuration screen anymore. I noticed that, in System Settings, there is an applet named Workspace behavior (or something like that, I'm translating from brazilian portuguese), which has a Screen corners tab. There I can configure some actions to be started when the mouse is placed at a chosen corner, but activating the screen saver is not on the list of possible actions. Is there a way in KDE 4.6.x to set up the screen saver to be activated when the mouse is placed at one of the screen corners? Thanks, Marcelo Marcelo, I have no clue, and despite asking here and there, no has told me yet why x/kde turns off the DPMS such when it starts, leaving you only with the power wasting screen decorators. I wish it would i get sick of typing xset -dpms after ever single update Huh? Did I use a double negative somewhere Pete? xset -dpms turns it off, leaving you with the scene I described and detest. See man xset. Hi .. I think it is an opensuse 11.3 issue or an issue with the update system i will crack it one day not tried 11.4 on here yet it may well be fixed in that .. any how i wont hijack th thread any more get me nutts chewed .. :-) .. Pete . -- Powered by openSUSE 11.3 (x86_64) Kernel: 2.6.34.8-0.2-desktop KDE Development Platform: 4.6.00 (4.6.0) 20:26 up 4 days 19:21, 4 users, load average: 0.38, 0.34, 0.23 ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: How to set up the screen saver to activate when the mouse is at a corner?
On Sunday, May 15, 2011 03:34:52 PM Peter Nikolic did opine: On Sunday 15 May 2011 20:08:32 gene heskett wrote: On Sunday, May 15, 2011 03:06:21 PM Peter Nikolic did opine: On Sunday 15 May 2011 19:42:42 gene heskett wrote: On Sunday, May 15, 2011 02:20:50 PM Marcelo Magno T. Sales did opine: Hello, There was an option in the screen saver configuration screen to activate the screen saver when the mouse was moved to a corner of the screen. When I updated from KDE 4.5.x to 4.6.x (Kubuntu), the screen saver stopped been activated when I place the mouse on the corner I had selected for that. This was working ok in 4.5.x. I see that the option to set this up does not exist in the screen saver configuration screen anymore. I noticed that, in System Settings, there is an applet named Workspace behavior (or something like that, I'm translating from brazilian portuguese), which has a Screen corners tab. There I can configure some actions to be started when the mouse is placed at a chosen corner, but activating the screen saver is not on the list of possible actions. Is there a way in KDE 4.6.x to set up the screen saver to be activated when the mouse is placed at one of the screen corners? Thanks, Marcelo Marcelo, I have no clue, and despite asking here and there, no has told me yet why x/kde turns off the DPMS such when it starts, leaving you only with the power wasting screen decorators. I wish it would i get sick of typing xset -dpms after ever single update Huh? Did I use a double negative somewhere Pete? xset -dpms turns it off, leaving you with the scene I described and detest. See man xset. Hi .. I think it is an opensuse 11.3 issue or an issue with the update system i will crack it one day not tried 11.4 on here yet it may well be fixed in that .. any how i wont hijack th thread any more get me nutts chewed .. :-) .. Pete . Wasn't trying to Pete, just trying to clarify that it wasn't a typu. ;-) -- Cheers, Gene There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order. -Ed Howdershelt (Author) http://tinyurl.com/ddg5bz http://www.cantrip.org/gatto.html PEGGY FLEMMING is stealing BASKET BALLS to feed the babies in VERMONT. ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
[kde] Re: How to set up the screen saver to activate when the mouse is at a corner?
Marcelo Magno T. Sales posted on Sun, 15 May 2011 15:09:24 -0300 as excerpted: I noticed that, in System Settings, there is an applet named Workspace behavior (or something like that, I'm translating from brazilian portuguese), which has a Screen corners tab. There I can configure some actions to be started when the mouse is placed at a chosen corner, but activating the screen saver is not on the list of possible actions. Is there a way in KDE 4.6.x to set up the screen saver to be activated when the mouse is placed at one of the screen corners? I don't use screen-savers here, but it may be that the lock screen option (on the screen corners tab) is what you're looking for. Since I don't have any screensavers installed, lock screen switches to a new plasma activity that covers the old screen. This activity apparently comes with the analog clock plasmoid configured by default, but you can add additional plasmoids, etc. However, while I get that screen, I also get a dialog saying the screen won't be locked as it couldn't be unlocked, no greeter app configured. From what I've read this is because I don't have a *DM installed either -- I don't (normally) need one as I always login at the CLI and if I want to run X/kde, I run a script that sets up a few variables and runs startx, which ultimately starts kde. But apparently the same user/password or whatever greeter that would appear in the *DM is used for the unlock screen as well, and since I don't have one installed, I get the dialog instead. The dialog has an OK button. When I push it, I return to the normal workspace. Instead of the screensavers, my system simply shuts down the graphics output after X minutes. With no input from the graphics card, the monitors briefly show a warning saying they're not getting input, and then themselves suspend, shutting off their backlites, etc. (This is the bit Gene H seems to have problems with in the sibling subthread. FWIW it has worked for years here and continues to do so, so it wouldn't appear to be a kde issue.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master. Richard Stallman ___ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
