How can I just turn off the screensaver and auto-suspend?

[Atrus Qiao]

Thanks a lot. It's xscreensaver exactly, and I think this could be the only
way. When I try to uninstall xscreensaver, it tells me that I have to
uninstall xubuntu-desktop as well! It seems xubuntu-desktop depends on
xscreensaver...

Best Regards


On 7/29/06, Michael V. De Palatis <mvd at gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 01:01:47AM +0800, Atrus Qiao wrote:
> > Hi everyone.
> >
> >  I've just installed Xubuntu 6.06 on my second-hand laptop Toshiba
> 490xcdt
> > with Pentium II 266 CPU, 96MB Ram and a S3 virge MX+ Video Card. (You
> know,
> > a student usually can't afford some good hardwares) I have to say
> > that Xubuntu is cool and fast enough for me.
> >
> >  But not all the things go well. When I try to start X with its s3virge
> > driver, my computer hangs. I'd tried lots of distributions before but
> none
> > of them seems to work(FreeBSD, NetBSD, even Gentoo compiled by myself).
> So I
> > ended it up by using vesa driver, thus my system lacks 3d acceleration.
> I
> > wanna trun the ScreenSaver off, But I cannot find the app to configure
> this.
> > Is it OK to just uninstall all the packages related to "screensaver"? I
> mean
> > is this too rude to the system...
> >
> > Another one is that when I close my laptop's LCD display, the system
> will
> > automatically suspend. But in most of the cases I want my computer to
> > perform some kind of work (say, calculating the molecular dynamics)
> without
> > leave it's LCD widely open. I can't find any kind of Power Management
> > Setting anywhere. So how can I turn this off?
>
> I'm not sure which screensaver xubuntu uses (my guess is
> xscreensaver). If xscreensaver is it, you can just set the screensaver
> to be a blank screen. Just run xscreensaver-demo and select "Blank
> screen only" as the mode.
>
> In modern terms, screensavers are hardly necessary anymore. Modern
> monitors will not get ruined if a screensaver doesn't activate. The
> main reasons they still exist is because (a) some of them are pretty,
> and (b) it gives some limited amount of privacy/security when you're
> away from your computer for a little bit (i.e., you can use the
> screensaver to lock your machine).
>
> Hope that helps,
>
> Mike
>
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