On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:16 PM, Peter Maffter wrote:

I am using the screen saver slide show on my SuSE 12.1.

KDE Version 4.8.3 (4.8.3) "release 504"

There is a kind of "blend over" effect between the photos which makes my nVidia graphic card use more power than necessary. The effects look like e.g. : http://www.upload-pictures.de/bild.php/15976,problemmitbildschirmschoner1219...

If these effects kick in, the passwort dialog does only show up delayed and the whole machine feels sluggish.

I did not find any hint in the internet or in this forum, how I can turn off these effects. I expected a button at the setup dialog of the screen saver to turn this off but there is none.

It also happens if I turn "Allow widgets on screen saver" on: then immediately the screen saver kicks in, I cannot type or do anything and those squares are making the graphic card fan rocket high.

I simply want to have that screen saver use as low resources as possible and no blend over effects.

Are you using the open source Nouveau driver or the nVidia proprietary drivers. I find this makes the largest difference in perfomance of the nVidia cards... and the Nouveau driver often (for me) displays artifacts and slows right down when trying to to do composite graphics. If you want a screen saver that uses as low resources as possible, why are you using a GL based photo slide show screensaver - probably one of the most demanding screensavers you can choose? For lowest resources, just use "blank" as your screensaver... no resource demand at all. C. -- openSUSE 12.1 x86_64, KDE 4.9.0 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org