Re: totally awesome gnome-settings-daemon patch!

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

On Sat, 23 Mar 2002, John Kodis wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 23, 2002 at 03:42:47AM -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> 
> >   Most screensaver tend to use quite a lot of CPU cycles, I really
> > think that keeping an user option about not activating it is needed.
> 
> There are a couple of screensaver options that would be convenient in
> some circumstances.  One would be for the situation Daniel mentioned,
> a "Disable CPU Hogs" options that disables any screensavers that use
> all available compute cycles, for when CPU cycles should be reserved
> for SETI or key cracking.  Another would be a "Don't show desktop"
> option, which would disable any screensavers that showed the existing
> desktop, even in a highly distorted form.  This would be valuable for
> cases where I have confidential documents on my desktop, and I want
> the screensaver to hide them from view.

This already exists, and even better - you can supply your own
"replacement" image that will be used instead of the desktop. This is the
way sun will ship (afaik) xscreensaver, for example.

> 
> -- John Kodis.
> 

	Sander

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