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Bug 349587 - gnome-screensaver should disable screensavers by default and just blank the screen
gnome-screensaver should disable screensavers by default and just blank the s...
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: gnome-screensaver
Classification: Deprecated
Component: daemon
2.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-screensaver maintainers
gnome-screensaver maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-08-01 20:49 UTC by Jean-François Fortin Tam
Modified: 2006-08-01 20:56 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Jean-François Fortin Tam 2006-08-01 20:49:07 UTC 
As a default behavior, there should not be any random screensaver started. The user does not expect his/her laptop computer to suddenly pump air heavily because there is no 2D/3D acceleration and the CPU is 100% in use.

Once the user wants a screensaver and knows that the hardware supports it, he will simply go and activate the one he likes. For now, I think the only thing that gnome-screensaver should be allowed to do as default is blank the screen. What do you think? Oh, and sorry if this has already been reported, I may have missed the magical keywords.
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2006-08-01 20:56:42 UTC 
I'm glad you think so.  This is exactly how the defaults behave now.  Chances are that your distribution (I'm guessing Ubuntu) changes these defaults in their packaging.  You should probably file a bug with them.