Re: The lost screenwaiter [Was: The lost screensaver]

["Jasper St. Pierre" <jstpierre mecheye net>]

I think it's just removing things of a passing era gone by to save
some space. The issues that screensavers solved were fixed in the
hardware at least ten years ago. And as just a side note, my Windows 7
machine didn't ship with anything other than a blank screensaver,
either.

On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 6:33 AM,  <shuihuzhuan free fr> wrote:
> 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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  Jasper