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

Atrus Qiao atrusqiao at gmail.com
Fri Jul 28 18:32:34 UTC 2006


Thanks you guys a lot.  ;-)

Gonna go and get some sleep now. The timezone here is GTM+8:00


On 7/29/06, Atrus Qiao <atrusqiao at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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>
>
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