Like it or not, xscreensaver is an app that manages power settings based on parameters in the .xscreensaver file, and xscreensaver-demo is a GUI for editing that file.
Your complaint is that xscreensaver and various other programs that *also* try to manage power settings step on each others' toes. That's unfortunate, but not terribly surprising, and yet, all said programs are functioning as designed. You can't run two window managers at the same time, either. You keep harping on "but I haven't clicked any of the options in xscreensaver-demo" but I keep trying to tell you that there's no way to tell what your intent is there. xscreensaver can't tell that the various parameters in the .xscreensaver file haven't been changed. It can't tell that certain settings in the app-defaults file are not the settings that the machine's admin consider to be important. It can't tell that you happened to have manually run xset or some other app at some time before xscreensaver was launched and yet still after the latest write-date on ~/.xscreensaver or whatever. There's no way to make two programs that both consider themselves to be in control of global settings like this both function properly. This line of argument you keep making has no legs, because computers are not psychic. I do agree that it would be a good idea for the .xscreensaver file to support the notion of having two different sets of settings for various parameters depending on whether the machine is running on battery or not. (And for the xscreensaver-demo program to present a GUI for editing .xscreensaver in that way.) However, it doesn't do that right now. If someone wants to make that change and send me a (portable, well-commented) patch, I would be glad to incorporate it into xscreensaver. I don't have time to do that work myself. I do not think the approach of "add an option to tell xscreensaver to not do power management at all" is the right way to solve this problem. (Incidentally -- and I don't consider this a "good" fix, but you might find it to be a workaround -- if you have a script edit the contents of ~/.xscreensaver when switching to/from battery power, the xscreensaver daemon will notice that the file has changed and re-load those settings.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
