The best screensaver these days is the monitor's power button. You don't really have to worry about image burn with today's color CRT monitors (and I would think this would be doubly true for LCD monitors). It's usually not a good idea to leave a monitor on all the time, as for a CRT the electron guns will eventually wear out, and there's no sense in having them going if no one is using the monitor, and as for an LCD I suspect there exists an analogous situation. I don't know how an LCD monitor is put together, so I really don't know.
Sean P.S. besides, setterm will blank the screen for you after a while unless you change the default action. Stefan Baums wrote: > Hi all, > > I remember reading somewhere that you don't really need screensavers anymore > with modern monitors to prevent damage to them, and that the only reason to > run them is to show off to your colleagues or whoever. Now I'm wondering if > that is true, and if it applies to (TFT) LCD diplays as well (which is what > I am using). > > Any ideas? > > Cheers, > Stefan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
