[Bug 54843] disable screensavers by default

Jeff Fortin nekohayo at gmail.com
Tue Aug 1 21:08:46 UTC 2006


Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gnome-screensaver

Similar to bug #34510 (which I'm not sure was fixed or not in dapper),
the screensavers should never be activated by default in ubuntu. EVEN
when the system is fully installed. I filed a bug upstream
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349587) but I was told that
this was already the default, so I assume ubuntu has made gnome-
screensaver start a random screensaver as the default behavior.

Which is bad, because (shamelessly copy-pasting my bug report on
gnome.org) the user does not expect his/her laptop computer to suddenly
pump air heavily because there is no 2D/3D acceleration and the CPU is
100% in use.

Once the user wants a screensaver and knows that the hardware supports
it, he will simply go and activate the one he likes. For now, I think
the only thing that gnome-screensaver should be allowed to do as default
is blank the screen.

** Affects: gnome-screensaver (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Untriaged
         Status: Unconfirmed

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disable screensavers by default
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54843




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