Help nice'ing the screensaver

["Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella" <zorzella@iname.com>]

Hi,

I share my home computer with my wife, and what I did was have gdm
(Gnome's xdm replacement) spawn 2 X sessions, one that can be found at
Ctrl-Alt-F7 (which I use) and the other at Ctrl-Alt-F8 (which my wife
uses). I've been using this forever (without gdm, in the past), and
it's a winner -- none of us disturb the other's work...

The problem I'm facing is about the screensaver. When I'm using my X
session, and my wife's screensaver kicks in, it hogs my CPU (not to
speak about the memory)... Is there any way to either nice the
screensaver (which I think it should be by default) and/or make it
suspend itself when that particular X session is not the current one
(which I also feel could be at least an option -- that would be even
better, as the screensaver would be thrown to disk swap...)?

Thanks,

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Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella                Computer Engineer
zorzella@iname.com