Feature changed by: locilka Feature #304395, revision 3 Title: Disabling (or handling) screensaver during installation openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: locilka@novell.com Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We currently have screen-saver active during installation/upgrade. This is a bit problematic when some exception occurs and opens a pop-up window requesting some user-decision (Abort/Retry/Ignore/...). On slower networks, installation can take tens of minutes, even a few hours. It would be nice to disable the screen-saver (easy) or at least handle all the exceptions by disabling the screen-saver. References: Bug 393890 - How to disable screen blank during installation https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=393890 Use Case: Installation on slower computer and/or via slower network Discussion: #1: aschnell@novell.com (2008-05-27 15:10:07) On slow computers people might actually want the screensaver. Suppose you start the installation and go home or sleeping: I would expect that the monitor powers off after some time. We could add a call "xset dpms force on" to popups. But I doubt that this is worth the effort. + #2: locilka@novell.com (2008-05-27 15:43:16) (reply to #1) + Bug 393890 says exactly: + During installation the screen will blank when for some period no + keyboard and + mouse activity is recognized. The drawback is, that you will not + notice error + messages that pop up. So one has to move the mouse every 5 minutes or + so and is + bound to the installation. + It would be cool, if we could + either do not blank the screen at all, + or "deblank" it, when a error message pops up. + ... and Stefan Hundhammer adds: + The screen saver should be off during installation. Why would there be + any + exception to this rule? (It's not even that screen savers serve their + real + purpose these days - it was an issue with old (very old) CRT monitors + that + could "burn in" images that would be displayed for a long, long time - + and + then, we are talking about months, not about hours). -- SUSE Feature Tool: http://partnerfate.suse.de/?rm=feature_show&id=304395