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Subject:    Re: [e-users] e17, xinerama and xscreensaver
From:       Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <raster () rasterman ! com>
Date:       2008-04-20 0:51:32
Message-ID: 20080420085132.20951d68.raster () rasterman ! com
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On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:13:03 -0500 Matt Garman <matthew.garman@gmail.com>
babbled:

solution: don't use xscreensaver?

think about it. your screen is BLANKING because you are not there! why do you
care what it draws or how fast? you are away... it should just blank to save
power/screen burn-in. e has its own desklock which will lock the screen on
command or on screen blank. use that if you want to have your terminal locked
with a password - e has no "animated" screensaver - mostly because i find it a
waste because of the above :)

> I'm running e17 on a dual-monitor set up.
> 
> One thing I've noticed about e17 versus other window managers is
> that virtual desktops are on a per-monitor basis.  E.g. if I go to
> virtual desktop 2 on my left monitor, my right monitor says the
> same.  I'm assuming this is how it's supposed to work.  It's
> different than what I'm used to, but not a bad thing.  I'm really
> indifferent either way.
> 
> But when xscreensaver kicks in, I have what looks like two instances
> of xscreensaver, one on each monitor.  This would be cool, except
> that the performance of xscreensaver is terrible.  The demos flicker
> really badly, plus CPU load goes through the roof.
> 
> Is there something I need to change in xscreensaver, e, or even
> Xorg?
> 
> Just before sending this email, I was messing around in
> xscreensaver-demo, and even THAT is horrendously slow.  I set the
> screensaver mode to "blank only", restarted xscreensaver-demo, and
> even then the GUI was extremely unresponsive.  The rest of my
> desktop was fine.  But the xscreensaver-demo GUI took >10 *seconds*
> to respond to each mouse click.  
> 
> I'll try rebuilding xscreensaver (I'm using gentoo).  But in the
> meantime, if anyone has any thoughts or ideas, I'm happy to hear
> them!
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
> 
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