Re: [gpm] Turning off screens in a multiscreen setup

[Richard Hughes <hughsient gmail com>]

On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 21:37 +0100, Philip Withnall wrote:
> Hi all,

Very sorry for the long delay - I've just finished my finals at
university.

> I suppose I should start by asking "does g-p-m already turn off single
> idle screens in a multiscreen setup?". Since I don't have such a setup
> myself, I don't know, but if g-p-m does, then you don't have to bother
> reading the rest of this e-mail. :-P

It bodges the issue. It uses the DPMS extension, and I think we assume
we only have one screen active. We currently use GDK_DISPLAY which is
probably just a bodge.

> This is following up on bug #347737 filed against Totem
> (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347737), which asks that
> other screens be turned off when one goes fullscreen in Totem. I was
> wondering if it might be a better idea to make this desktop-wide, and
> have idle screens turned off if they had no applications running on
> them. They could then be turned on one-by-one again when the mouse moves
> on them (as with a normal setup). As I said already, I don't have a
> multiscreen setup, so I've got no idea what I'm talking about really,
> but I thought it would be interesting to bring up anyway.

Yes, this is a good powersaving idea.

> Additionally, I apologise if I've posted this in the wrong place --- it
> was a juggle between g-p-m, g-s, and GTK/GDK. I hope I chose the right
> one. :)

Yes, this is good. Does anybody on the list run dual head with DPMS?

Richard.