Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-05-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > Frederic Marchal wrote: > > > Moreover, it makes sense to have a screen saver to turn the display and > > > backlight off. It saves a lot of energy on a laptop. > > > > Not to mention that some, who make grunting noises in the backwoods, are > > still

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-05-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 29 April 2015 18:49:38 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:30:19 +0200 > > Frederic Marchal wrote: > > Moreover, it makes sense to have a screen saver to turn the display and > > backlight off. It saves a lot of energy on a laptop. > > Not to mention that some, who make gr

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-30 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2015-04-30 3:26 GMT+02:00 Gary Roach : > On 04/29/2015 10:30 AM, Frederic Marchal wrote: >> >> On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: >>> >>> On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello, >>> This doesn't answer you question exactly but I would like to point ou

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/29/2015 10:30 AM, Frederic Marchal wrote: On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Sven Hartge (s...@svenhartge.de): > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Gary Roach wrote: > > >> I bow to your experience but, for the life of me, I can't see how > >> this could happen with the physics that is involved. I suppose that > >> the liquid crystal material could deteriorate with time but I

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Gary Roach wrote: >> I bow to your experience but, for the life of me, I can't see how >> this could happen with the physics that is involved. I suppose that >> the liquid crystal material could deteriorate with time but I thought >> that the stuff was pretty indestructible.

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary Roach wrote: > I bow to your experience but, for the life of me, I can't see how this > could happen with the physics that is involved. I suppose that the > liquid crystal material could deteriorate with time but I thought that > the stuff was pretty indestructible. It doesn't make sense to m

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Gary Roach wrote: > On 04/29/2015 10:30 AM, Frederic Marchal wrote: >> Not quite right. I have seen LCD screens where the login screen was >> burned in the screen leaving a clearly visible and annoying shadow at >> all time. >> So, it isn't a good idea to leave the same display on the screen for

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/29/2015 10:30 AM, Frederic Marchal wrote: On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Ron
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:30:19 +0200 Frederic Marchal wrote: > Moreover, it makes sense to have a screen saver to turn the display and > backlight off. It saves a lot of energy on a laptop. Not to mention that some, who make grunting noises in the backwoods, are still using CRT monitors... Che

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: > On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything > > > > is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE. > > > > I would like to lock

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE. I would like to lock the screen when the lid of my laptop is closed (by running xscreensaver, which I cu

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-28 Thread Francesco Ariis
On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 02:38:34PM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote: > On suspend, systemd-logind will send out a signal on DBus to all > processes listening for it that says: please lock your screen. > > There's something called xss-lock that can allegedly (haven't > tried it myself) listen to those

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-28 Thread Christian Seiler
Am 2015-04-28 14:27, schrieb Francesco Ariis: I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE. I would like to lock the screen when the lid of my laptop is closed (by running xscreensaver, which I currently

Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-28 Thread Francesco Ariis
Hello, I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE. I would like to lock the screen when the lid of my laptop is closed (by running xscreensaver, which I currently have installed, if possible, but any other