Bug#921835: xfce4-screensaver: wastes CPU while the display is off
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On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 14:32 +0100, Adam Borowski wrote:
> > Honestly I'd be just fine in just disabling all the screensavers and only keep
> > blank screen.
>
> Do you mean dropping them all by default, or just after the powersave kicks
> in? The latter would keep the eyecandy when there's a human around.
Yes, completely disabling them.
>
> Not that the eyecandy distraction feature is so vital... Just blanking the
> screen is probably as good. I need *-screensaver as a sane locker (ie,
> anything _but_ light-locker), not for its visual appeal.
I think it's really the only sane use of screensavers these days. Eyecandy
might be interesting, but not if it comes with security issues (they run in
their own processes afair so their crash should bring the locker with them,
but still).
Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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