nanogui: Screensaver?
Subject:
Re: Screensaver?
From:
Alex Holden ####@####.####
Date:
17 Oct 2000 08:43:10 -0000
Message-Id: <Pine.LNX.4.04.10010170935570.1267-100000@www.linuxhacker.org>
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Nils Faerber wrote:
> OK. As I said no problem with me, I just want to extend my iPaq's
> battery life. Which way the screen is turned off is rather irrelevant
You're talking about a screen blanker (something which turns the display
hardware off to conserve power), not a screen saver (something which
displays patterns and things on the screen to amuse and (supposedly)
avoid screen burn-in). I agree that a screen blanker function in the
main server select loop would be a good idea (so if all you want to do is
conserve your PDA's battery life you don't have to waste a lot of memory
and processor time doing it), and if you want a screen saver that should
be done as a seperate process which overrides the blanker, monitors
keyboard and mouse events, and grabs the root window to draw things on it
when it times out.
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