You can use xlock. You do not have to associate an screen saver with xlock and still have it lock your screen. Also even with xlock on the apmi should still kick in and auto suspend your monitor. Hope this helps. Austin Morgan On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 02:40:57PM +0200, theodore.schulze@us.army.mil wrote:

Silviu Marin-Caea wrote:

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That solved my lockups with 8.0 just before I installed 8.1 Don't know why but xscreensavers and my machine did not get along at all.

Screensavers have been invented in the old times, when computers couldn't turn off automatically the monitor after some idle time.

The monitor would display the same image for hours, if left unattended. This caused damage to the fluorescent particles of the monitors from that past time. Screen-savers were invented for this reason, to show a moving image that would even the usage of screen surface.

Nowadays, computers can turn off the monitor. Sorry, but this fact alone should be killer for the whole screen-saver type of application.

Well, I don't have a screen-saver aquarium, but I do like the feature of having my screen password protected. How do you put the monitor into standby and have it password protected without the utility of a screen saver? (Not trying to be "in your face" about this; just curious what you use.)