nanogui: Screensaver?
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Re: Screensaver?
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Date:
17 Oct 2000 09:26:33 -0000
Message-Id: <004401c0381d$0c76e760$8c0448c0@gv.com.tw>
if framebuffer console enabled in linux,
there is a screen blanker function pointer in framebuffer console structure
for you to implement
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From: "Alex Holden" ####@####.####
To: "Nils Faerber" ####@####.####
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Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 4:43 PM
Subject: Re: Screensaver?
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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