[ubuntu-za] Screen saver confusion

Hilton Gibson hilton.gibson at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 07:22:14 UTC 2012


Hi Jan

See: http://www.ubuntu.sun.ac.za/wiki/index.php/Themes

Cheers

hg

On 8 June 2012 07:00, Wikus <mazal.wikus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Morning Jan ,
>
> 12.04 doesn't have any screen savers. That "screen goes blank" is in fact
> it's screen saver.
> The only one by default. I have read that you can add more , but myself I
> don't know how sorry.
>
> - Wikus
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> On 06/07/2012 09:08 PM, Jan Greeff wrote:
>
>> The screen saver settings on Ubuntu 12.04 are confusing: Under "display
>> modes" it says "Blank after..." but when I hover the cursor, it says "How
>> long before the screen saver activates."
>>
>> So if I set it at, say 30 minutes, will the screen go blank after 30
>> minutes or will the screensaver activate after 30 minutes? It appears as if
>> the screen goes blank, but it seems to go blank after a short while anyway,
>> irrespective of how I set it up.
>>
>> Can somebody please elaborate on these settings?
>>
>> Jan
>>
>>
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