lock on lid closure
George Farris
farrisg at cc.mala.bc.ca
Tue Feb 7 23:41:10 GMT 2006
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.
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