default screensaver : why not the blank screen ?

[Jérôme Bouat]

It has been fixed on lucid Beta 1.

There still be a big poweroff delay of the screen (30 minutes). Maybe a 
shorter screen poweroff delay by default (~10 minutes) could make Ubuntu 
more energy efficient ?


Benjamin Humphrey a écrit :
> I think it already is set to blank screen after 5 minutes... at least on 
> Ubuntu anyway. Correct me if I'm wrong.
> 
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 5:54 AM, Jérôme Bouat <jerome.bouat at laposte.net 
> <mailto:jerome.bouat at laposte.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello,
> 
> 
>     Because:
> 
>     - the cost of the energy will increase in the coming years (what ever
>     the primary source is)
> 
>     - a laptop needs to spare its battery
> 
>     I think that Ubuntu should set the blank screen as default screensaver
>     for all its flavour (Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Ubuntu netbook
>     edition, ...).
> 
> 
>     Could we possibly apply this default configuration before the next LTS
>     release ? Since there will be a lot of users, it would save a lot of
>     energy.
> 
>     Each step can make the world better.
> 
> 
>     Regards.
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