[ale] linux screen saver

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Thu Jan 15 12:00:58 EST 2009


On Thu January 15 2009, John G. Heim wrote:
> > So you're trying to have the screensaver running before anyone logs in?
> >  I'm not sure I understand the purpose.
>
> Well, I'm trying to set it up that way because that's what I've been told
> to do.:-)

probably what you want is to have the screen powered off as part of power 
management, not a screen saver. You can have the screen power down ( and the 
hard drive spin down) after XX minutes inactivity.

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Paul Cartwright
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