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Re: Screen blanker & Mouse



On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:15, lee <lee@yun.yagibdah.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:49:57PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote:
>>
>> Personally, I trust xscreensaver a lot more than the KDE or Gnome
>> screensavers.
>>
>> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde
>> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html
>
> How do you know for sure if the screen saver stops to show graphics
> when DPMS turns off the signal to the monitor? It's what keeps me from
> using a screen saver, I don't want it to be active when the monitor is
> off.

Xscreensaver has support for this, see the power management
section in man xscreensaver for details. I cannot think of how to
actually verify that it is happening. Me, I just trust jwz.


Cheers,
Kelly Clowers


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