On Sun, Jun 27, 2021 at 04:14:39PM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Mr. Tormod Volden is the maintainer of xscreensaver package of Debian. > If multiple requests are sent to Mr. Volden, the same line to switch > off LED backlights of laptop, with "xset dpms force off", could be > implemented. > > Hope in the coming days, Mr. Volden would receive several more requests. > > Best. > > Rajib > Etc. > Hi Rajib,
I'm not sure you'll have much success here - and I think you've misunderstood how maintainers often work. Your way of using xscreensaver is your way, essentially. Using another xset command to blank the screen on your laptop is your choice and it works for you. For example: Somebody else might be using xscreensaver just to lock the screen while they're away from a laptop but want the screensaver to show so that other people around know not to fiddle with it - or many other use cases. If you think it's a bug / a useful additional feature: use the reportbug program to write a small request which will also give details of the software installed on the machine. Probably an appropriate serverity to file this at would be "wishlist" - it's a nice to have, but doesn't impact on the existing usability of the program (and might impact users with different laptops / different setups - there is already a blank setting in the program which may work for them). [Tormod Volden would be perfectly within his rights to reply with a WONTFIX and a short justification: in this instance, he's repackaging a program for which he isn't the upstream maintainer - and, given history of his interactions with Debian, I doubt Jamie Zawinski (jwz) would care too much.] Impliedly asking this list to send emails to back you up is not a good or useful strategy on-list (and is the wrong way to reach the maintainer). You could have asked in this way "List readers: I've found something useful to me by using xset on my laptop and running this "xset dpms force off" command to turn off my laptop backlight when I'm also running xscreensaver. Does anybody else think this is useful to them? If so, reply to the list and I'll raise it with the maintainer." or something close to that. There are times when your phrasing on this list could be read badly / the tone of your emails is inappropriate. We're all volunteers here and taking time to read and reply: support here is using best efforts and none of us is entitled to demand anything of anyone else, particularly. All the very best, as ever, Andy Cater All the very best, as ever, > > > ---------- Sent message ---------- > From: Susmita/Rajib <bkpsusmi...@gmail.com> > Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2021 21:53:00 +0530 > Subject: Could your xscreensaver package be improved by switching off > the LED backlights with "xset dpms force off"? > To: Tormod Volden <deb***o...@gmail.com> > > To, > Mr. Tormod Volden > <debian.tor...@gmail.com> > Maintainer of xscreensaver > > Dear Mr. Volden, > > For sometime I have been using the terminal to run the code: xautolock > -time 1 -locker "xset dpms force off", and have found an excellent > screensaver. While the xscreensaver doesn't switch off the LED light > completely (a faint backlight glow remains), mine does totally, with a > totally switched off screen. > > I also have two script files to do the same work iteratively in loops, > but I fear that the loops might create more forks and consume more > memory. > > Have posted the matter here for feedback: > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2021/06/msg00436.html > but haven't received any feedback yet. > > So I am using just the code in a terminal. > > Could xscreensaver have this aspect included within itself please? > > Best. > > Rajib Bandopadhyay > A dedicated Knoppix and Debian user >
