I just installed 12.1 and it is working well except I can not figure out how to setup the screen saver. Could someone explain what I am missing because I never had this problem with older versions of opensuse. Thanks.
On 01/23/2012 07:36 PM, ralphpam wrote:
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> I just installed 12.1 and it is working well except I can not figure out
> how to setup the screen saver.
the answer you need will depend on which desktop environment did you
installed and there are too many to guess: KDE3, KDE4, Gnome2, Gnome3,
LXDE, Xfce, and others…
so, tell us please.
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DD
openSUSE®, the “German Engineered Automobiles” of operating systems!
It is the gnome version that came with the live cd so I am not sure if it is 2 or 3.
Hi
There is no screensaver in Gnome 3.x yet… it’s been deprecated and
hopefully will be re-introduced as a clutter one.
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Cheers Malcolm °¿° (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64) Kernel 3.1.0-1.2-desktop
up 19:56, 4 users, load average: 0.09, 0.08, 0.06
CPU Intel i5 CPU M520@2.40GHz | Intel Arrandale GPU
Thank you. I wondered if that would be the answer.
On 2012-01-23 21:06, malcolmlewis wrote:
> There is no screensaver in Gnome 3.x yet… it’s been deprecated and
> hopefully will be re-introduced as a clutter one.
No screensaver? I wondered about that… so this is progress.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 21:53:07 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2012-01-23 21:06, malcolmlewis wrote:
>> There is no screensaver in Gnome 3.x yet… it’s been deprecated and
>> hopefully will be re-introduced as a clutter one.
>
> No screensaver? I wondered about that… so this is progress.
Well, nothing like the old “flying toasters” screensaver - there is a
screen lock, however.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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On 2012-01-24 01:37, Jim Henderson wrote:
>> No screensaver? I wondered about that… so this is progress.
> Well, nothing like the old “flying toasters” screensaver - there is a
> screen lock, however.
In the fallbackmode, the black screen that substitutes the screensaver
leaves the top bar intact, displaying login name and hour:minute. The
screen never sleeps, never switches off the backlight, which is the crucial
feature.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:18:06 +0000, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2012-01-24 01:37, Jim Henderson wrote:
>>> No screensaver? I wondered about that… so this is progress.
>> Well, nothing like the old “flying toasters” screensaver - there is a
>> screen lock, however.
>
> In the fallbackmode, the black screen that substitutes the screensaver
> leaves the top bar intact, displaying login name and hour:minute. The
> screen never sleeps, never switches off the backlight, which is the
> crucial feature.
I’ve noticed DPMS doesn’t work particularly well with G3 at all, even in
‘full’ mode the backlight won’t switch off.
My workaround until it’s fixed:
File ~/bin/lock:
— snip —
#!/bin/bash
gnome-screensaver-command -l
xset +dpms
xset dpms 5
— snip —
When I lock my desktop, I hit alt+f2 and type “lock”.
That kills the monitor persistently. I also have this issue on SLES10,
though oddly my laptop (running 12.1 with G3) does actually turn the
display off.
Jim
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Jim Henderson
openSUSE Forums Administrator
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On 2012-01-24 05:01, Jim Henderson wrote:
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> My workaround until it’s fixed:
Mmmm. I only have a test partition with 12.1, I’m staying on 11.4 till the
waters get warmer.
But I’ll take a note of your trick, thanks.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 “Celadon” at Telcontar)