The lost screenwaiter [Was: The lost screensaver]
- From: shuihuzhuan free fr
- To: gnome-shell-list gnome org
- Subject: The lost screenwaiter [Was: The lost screensaver]
- Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:33:22 +0100 (CET)
Well,
The switch in terminology between 'screensaving' and 'screenlocking' may be useful in corporates. But at home it's less meaningfull/usefull (at least for me). And it doesn't seem to completly replace the previous screensaver functionality.
Previous screensavers had 2 different functionalities :
- screenwaiting : display nice things when the computer is idle-ing (slideshow, fancy animations ...), user-adjustable.
- screenlocking : lock the session access (for those who need to, optional and not mandatory).
The first functionality is missing and there's still no plans to replace it (as I understand).
I share the computer with my wife (2 different accounts). We always disable the user-locking functionality (no use and just annoying [1]). But since the move to gnome3, we really miss the old screensaving behaviour (ie after few minutes of inactivity, display a nice slideshow on the screen).
I know we can :
1 - replace gnome-screensaver with xscreensaver, but then I can't find how to completly disable the locking functionality (particularly when we switch between sessions) so I dropped it
2 - replace gnome-screensaver, and write my own screenslideshow but it may well exceed my very low programming skills.
So we only have a sad blank screen for the moment.
The plan for screenlocking doesn't seem to be user-adjustable but instead a fixed design. But I could be wrong.
Thanks
Herve
[1] Does anyone knows how to EASILY switch between open sessions (I know I can CTRL+Fn, but it's too cryptic for my wife). There was a rapid-user-switch or something like that before. Now there's only a 'switch user' that leads to gdm and then you select the account and then each time you have to type in the password and finally you are... but it's a pain.
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