BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 20:41, Basil Chupin wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
On Friday 26 May 2006 19:42, Donald D Henson wrote:
What happened to the screensaver between 10.0 & 10.1. In 10.0, there are about a hundred screensaver displays. In 10.1, there are only three. Is there a way to add the 10.0 displays to the 10.1 screensaver? Am I missing something?
Donald D. Henson
You must be missing something, because it appears I have as many as there were in 10.0. Probably a package you haven't installed yet. Sorry, I can't tell you which one that might be.
Lee But what hasn't changed between 10.0 and 10.1 is that the damn screensaver STILL cuts in after 10 minutes even though it is turned OFF. Bloody annoying!
Cheers. ========
Have you checked the power settings on the monitor? Usually it's the DPMS, I believe, that puts the monitor in sleep mode. Does the monitor just go blank? Do you have the powersave utility running?
Lee
Nope, setting DPMS under the monitor settings (Control Centre/Hardware/Display) does SFA- the monitor still blanks after 10 minutes. Setting the screensaver to start after 90 minutes (or any number of minutes even to 999 minutes) still has the screen blanking. However, asking me if I had a powersave utility running prompted me to go into Control Centre and check if any daemons were running. Yes, the powersave demon was running so I switched it off. Seems that this may have done the trick and the screen stays put now - at least on this logon and at this point in time. This of course begs the obvious question: why the heck is there all that provision of tick boxes in Desktop Configuration, and elsewhere like the DPMS setting, if none of this ticking/unticking boxes works?! and the only way to stop the screen blanking is to stop the powersaving daemon from running! I've picked-up on another "feature" ("No Sir, we calls that a 'bug' ") but I'll start later a new thread on it. Thanks for the push in the right direction on this hassle :-) . Cheers. -- Ignorance can be corrected. Stupidity is permanent.