How to disable some visual effects

[Michael V. De Palatis]

On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 09:19:22AM +0200, Luca Manganelli wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm managing a server with Ubuntu 6.0.6.1 installed and FreeNX.
> 
> It is used for enteprise environment.
> 
> I want to know how to:
> 
> - disable screensaver for all users (without logging in to each user),
> since a screensaver can eat up to 80% CPU with nxagent daemon;

Can you just uninstall the screensaver? If you have ubuntu-desktop
installed, you would need to uninstall that first, since
gnome-screensaver depends on it. Note: ubuntu-desktop is a
metapackage, meaning that it doesn't actually contain anything by
itself other than dependencies. Removing ubuntu-desktop will not
remove any other packages unless you manually remove them (e.g., the
screen saver).

> - disable some graphic effects, like the "gksu" background fade
> - effect

This I am not sure how to do, if it's even possible. There is a
/etc/gksu.conf file, but a quick glance doesn't indicate if that
option is possible. Perhaps the manpage would have something about
that?

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