Hi, On Tuesday 31 October 2006 20:57, John Andersen wrote:
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 14:48, Ronald Wiplinger wrote:
I wonder if a screen saver with a LCD monitor still useful is.
With CRT monitors the screen saver helped not to burn in a picture, but that reason is not anymore with LCD.
That's not strictly true. Some LCD screens also exhibit burn-in effects.
A screen saver is fine, if somebody enters your office and so not "destructed" from your current work on the screen. However, a hot key to blank out the screen or start a screen saver would (in my opinion) be better, than a permanent process, taking cpu cycles and memory away from your current work!
Nothing is "taken away." At least nothing measurable.
Lucky for you Linux has what you want. Many Linux screen savers support hot-spots (usually upper corners), where you can move the mouse to trigger some event like start the screen saver, lock the screen, etc. Check it out.
Yes, but it requires some patience. On this machine, there's about a 12-second delay between putting the cursor in the hot-point and the screen saver activating.
John Andersen
Randall Schulz