Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] About Xscreensaver
1 thing I will change for 12.04 is to change the behavior by default, using *only a blank screen instead of the animated one*. It should be nicer for your type of configuration. +1 On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 1:52 AM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le 12/23/2011 10:16 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a écrit : It has been pointed in the past, that for old machines Xcreensaver makes everything sluggish (i can make proof of it because some installations of Lubuntu have crashed because it tries to launch xcreensaver and everything falls apart AND in my pentium 3 @1000mhz the first thing i cut is the screensaver because it slows the whole system) If I remember correctly, drop xcreensaver was a bad idea just for the blocking screen. I've been using a little Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm wondering if they still use a screensaver at all. Maybe they are using something different just to block the screen? If yes, maybe we could use the same thing and cut xcreensaver from Lubuntu. They are using compiz to lock the screen, so we can't use the same :) 1 thing I will change for 12.04 is to change the behavior by default, using only a blank screen instead of the animated one. It should be nicer for your type of configuration. Regards, Julien Lavergne ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- Best Regards, *amjjawad* Lubuntu One Stop Thread (Mega Thread)http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1844755 My Wiki Page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad | My Launchpadhttps://launchpad.net/%7Eamjjawad | My Ubuntu Forum Profile http://ubuntuforums.org/member.php?u=941822 *My Actions Speak Louder Than My Words ||** ** I walk by faith, not by sight **|| Imagination is more important than Knowledge || **Keep It Simple and Short* ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Lubuntu-desktop] About Xscreensaver
It has been pointed in the past, that for old machines Xcreensaver makes everything sluggish (i can make proof of it because some installations of Lubuntu have crashed because it tries to launch xcreensaver and everything falls apart AND in my pentium 3 @1000mhz the first thing i cut is the screensaver because it slows the whole system) If I remember correctly, drop xcreensaver was a bad idea just for the blocking screen. I've been using a little Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm wondering if they still use a screensaver at all. Maybe they are using something different just to block the screen? If yes, maybe we could use the same thing and cut xcreensaver from Lubuntu. -- jpxsat ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] About Xscreensaver
Le 12/23/2011 10:16 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a écrit : It has been pointed in the past, that for old machines Xcreensaver makes everything sluggish (i can make proof of it because some installations of Lubuntu have crashed because it tries to launch xcreensaver and everything falls apart AND in my pentium 3 @1000mhz the first thing i cut is the screensaver because it slows the whole system) If I remember correctly, drop xcreensaver was a bad idea just for the blocking screen. I've been using a little Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm wondering if they still use a screensaver at all. Maybe they are using something different just to block the screen? If yes, maybe we could use the same thing and cut xcreensaver from Lubuntu. They are using compiz to lock the screen, so we can't use the same :) 1 thing I will change for 12.04 is to change the behavior by default, using only a blank screen instead of the animated one. It should be nicer for your type of configuration. Regards, Julien Lavergne ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] About Xscreensaver
Thanks Julien, I always forget to disable it and then wonder why my CPU usage on my latest VM install is driving my CPU so high after about 10 minutes when I am on my 'main' system. Less is more :) Regards, Phill. On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Julien Lavergne gi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Le 12/23/2011 10:16 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a écrit : It has been pointed in the past, that for old machines Xcreensaver makes everything sluggish (i can make proof of it because some installations of Lubuntu have crashed because it tries to launch xcreensaver and everything falls apart AND in my pentium 3 @1000mhz the first thing i cut is the screensaver because it slows the whole system) If I remember correctly, drop xcreensaver was a bad idea just for the blocking screen. I've been using a little Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm wondering if they still use a screensaver at all. Maybe they are using something different just to block the screen? If yes, maybe we could use the same thing and cut xcreensaver from Lubuntu. They are using compiz to lock the screen, so we can't use the same :) 1 thing I will change for 12.04 is to change the behavior by default, using only a blank screen instead of the animated one. It should be nicer for your type of configuration. Regards, Julien Lavergne ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] About Xscreensaver
On 12/23/2011 06:09 PM, ∅ wrote: Really? I've never had this problem, VM or not. Which screensaver are you using? I'm using GLMatrix. The default one does it for me, at least in virtualbox VMs. Although I usually don't notice it for weeks, because I leave only one such VM running unles I am doing something fairly unusual, and on a quad core CPU, having just one core wasting its time screensaving a VM doesn't really make any noticeable difference to normal desktop usage at all -- then much much later, I run something that really taxes the CPU and can use multiple threads, run top or htop, and there it is :) Setting the xscreensaver default to blank screen seems like a good solution, being (hopefully) straightforward to implement, and yet reducing the unwanted CPU load very substantially. Jonathan ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop Post to : lubuntu-desktop@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
