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

[Atrus Qiao]

Yeah, I agree with that. After all, it still can provide some limited
security huh? Hope this can prevent my dorm-mate from tapping randomly on my
keyboard :-)

On 7/29/06, Michael V. De Palatis <mvd at gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 29, 2006 at 02:16:23AM +0800, Atrus Qiao wrote:
> > 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...
>
> xubuntu-desktop is "just a metapackage." What that means is that
> xubuntu-desktop itself doesn't actually contain anything, but depends
> on a lot of things that come with the standard Xubuntu setup (hence,
> if you install xubuntu-desktop, it will grab everything needed). Once
> you've installed, you can remove it if you want with no ill effects.
>
> However, I personally feel better just leaving xscreensaver installed,
> even if you are only going to just have it blank the screen rather
> than display a "real" screensaver.
>
> Mike
>
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