lock on lid closure

[George Farris]

On Tue, 2006-07-02 at 21:10 -0200, Carlos Ribeiro wrote:
> On 2/7/06, Stefan Glasenhardt <glasen at web.de> wrote:
>         This is a little bit off-topic,
>         
>         but can anybody explain me why xscreensaver is installed by
>         default?
> 
> Well, from a perfectly practical point of view I guess you're right.
> But for a desktop distro, screensavers are a important feature. It's
> nice to watch. It's nice to show beautiful 3D fireworks to your
> clueless Windows-impaired friends :-) For *me*, it's something worth
> leaving the monitor turned on, and it's one of the things that Ubuntu
> (and most desktop-oriented Linux distros in general) have over
> Windows. 

I must concur.  Having really nice screensavers has always been an
advocacy point.  I have had many people comment on the screensavers
under Ubuntu and become interested after hearing about it.