Re: Regarding My Email to Mr. Tormod Volden, Could your xscreensaver package be improved by switching off the LED backlights with "xset dpms force off"?
On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 04:14:39PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote:
> Mr. Tormod Volden is the maintainer of xscreensaver package of Debian.
> If multiple requests are sent to Mr. Volden, the same line to switch
> off LED backlights of laptop, with "xset dpms force off", could be
> implemented.
>
> Hope in the coming days, Mr. Volden would receive several more requests.
>
> Best.
>
> Rajib
> Etc.
>
Hi Rajib,
I'm not sure you'll have much success here - and I think you've misunderstood
how maintainers often work.
Your way of using xscreensaver is your way, essentially. Using another xset
command to blank the screen on your laptop is your choice and it works
for you. For example: Somebody else might be using xscreensaver just to
lock the screen while they're away from a laptop but want the screensaver to
show so that other people around know not to fiddle with it - or many other
use cases.
If you think it's a bug / a useful additional feature: use the reportbug
program to write a small request which will also give details of the software
installed on the machine. Probably an appropriate serverity to file this at
would be "wishlist" - it's a nice to have, but doesn't impact on the
existing usability of the program (and might impact users with different
laptops / different setups - there is already a blank setting in the
program which may work for them).
[Tormod Volden would be perfectly within his rights to reply with a
WONTFIX and a short justification: in this instance, he's repackaging
a program for which he isn't the upstream maintainer - and, given history of
his interactions with Debian, I doubt Jamie Zawinski (jwz) would care too
much.]
Impliedly asking this list to send emails to back you up is not a good or
useful strategy on-list (and is the wrong way to reach the maintainer).
You could have asked in this way
"List readers: I've found something useful to me by using xset on my laptop
and running this "xset dpms force off" command to turn off my laptop
backlight when I'm also running xscreensaver. Does anybody else think this
is useful to them? If so, reply to the list and I'll raise it with the
maintainer."
or something close to that.
There are times when your phrasing on this list could be read badly / the
tone of your emails is inappropriate. We're all volunteers here and
taking time to read and reply: support here is using best efforts and none
of us is entitled to demand anything of anyone else, particularly.
All the very best, as ever,
Andy Cater
All the very best, as ever,
>
>
> ---------- Sent message ----------
> From: Susmita/Rajib <bkpsusmitaa@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:53:00 +0530
> Subject: Could your xscreensaver package be improved by switching off
> the LED backlights with "xset dpms force off"?
> To: Tormod Volden <deb***od@gmail.com>
>
> To,
> Mr. Tormod Volden
> <debian.tormod@gmail.com>
> Maintainer of xscreensaver
>
> Dear Mr. Volden,
>
> For sometime I have been using the terminal to run the code: xautolock
> -time 1 -locker "xset dpms force off", and have found an excellent
> screensaver. While the xscreensaver doesn't switch off the LED light
> completely (a faint backlight glow remains), mine does totally, with a
> totally switched off screen.
>
> I also have two script files to do the same work iteratively in loops,
> but I fear that the loops might create more forks and consume more
> memory.
>
> Have posted the matter here for feedback:
> https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/06/msg00436.html
> but haven't received any feedback yet.
>
> So I am using just the code in a terminal.
>
> Could xscreensaver have this aspect included within itself please?
>
> Best.
>
> Rajib Bandopadhyay
> A dedicated Knoppix and Debian user
>
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