Silviu Marin-Caea
Clayton Cornell wrote:
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.)