On Tuesday 18 October 2005 04:37, Basil Chupin wrote:
Greg Wallace wrote: ...
As my original message states, I have the screen saver set to OFF - I don't like screen savers, they're a waste of time.
If your system runs something such as one of the distributed computing projects, then this argument is valid, otherwise not. Note, too, that the KDE screen-saver control panel has three priority settings. And there are screen-savers that consume minimal CPU. Vermiculate is a good choice from that perspective as well as from a visual appeal point of view (which is, of course, entirely a matter of taste). What's more to the point is that most of screen savers don't save the screen! The pattern is not fixed, but they still send a lot of electrons at the phosphor. Up until I got an LCD flat-panel, I used plain old screen blanking (as well as timed power-down, of course). Now I can use one of the eye-candy "savers."
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Randall Schulz