Smarter Screen saver

Daniel Stone daniel.stone at ubuntu.com
Sun Oct 2 11:37:32 CDT 2005


On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 05:07:15AM +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:
> Yes. I think the only really solution for this has to use X, so that only 
> users with access to a display can change the screensaver settings for that
> display.
> 
> As far as I understand the xlib's screen saver functions (described in 
> chapter "9.7. Controlling the Screen Saver" of
> /usr/share/doc/xspecs/xlib.txt.gz) and the DPMS extension (described in
> /usr/share/doc/xspecs/xlib/DPMS.txt.gz) could be used for this.

xscreensaver expends a lot of effort trying to avoid the
MIT-SCREEN-SAVER extension.
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