Screensaver and power controls

[Cybe R. Wizard]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:23:25 -0700
Mark wrote:

> I think this is the last glitch I'm currently facing with U10.10 - so
> far everything else is working beautifully - it even reinterpreted my
> personalized metacity theme from CentOS into something I could modify
> enough to work well and it has no trouble at all recognizing my HP
> J3600 as a scanner AND a printer, but I digress....
> 
> In the screensaver, there is a slider for how long to wait before
> considering the computer idle and locking the screen.  I like leaving
> this long because under CentOS, mplayer and the browser plugins that
> play movies don't disable the screensaver (xine did), so I have that
> set for 2 hours.
> 
> However, in the power options, I can't set the screen to stay on for 2
> hours unless I tell it never to go off, which I'd rather not do.  In
> CentOS, I had the screen power-down set for roughly half an hour after
> the screensaver kicked in. Off hand, I can't remember if this was an
> explicit 2:30 setting or if it was just 30 minutes (after lockup).
> Under U10.10, I can only set it for 5, 15, 30 or 60 minutes, or never.
>  I don't get the sliders, either, just a field with fixed values from
> which to choose.
> 
> I'm sure there's a way to tweak this if I knew where to look and what
> to look for, so can anyone point me at the right config file, or is it
> really limited to the listed values only?
> 
> I tried the Power Manager in System->Preferences, but that doesn't
> address this issue, and I'm not at all sure where else to look.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Mark
> 
If it were me I'd trade on the gnome-screensaver for xscreensaver.  It
has the options you are looking for.
For extra modules get all the packages (some are 3-D required) labeled
with xscreensaver, too, plus rss-glx.

Cybe R. Wizard
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