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Re: 9.0.6->9.0.7 update failure on byte-me
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Fri Jun 15 20:05:45 2001
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To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
cc: Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 15 Jun 2001 17:50:42 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 20:05:40 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
> > my SGI monitor is powersaving while xscreensaver runs
>
> I investigated a bit more, and found that the monitor power-saves after
> you activate the screensaver, or lock the screen, via a client message
> (using xss-command). It does not power-save when the screensaver is
> activated automatically (after timeout).
In the client message case, xscreensaver uses XForceScreenSaver() to
force activation of the screen saver; that apparently causes power saving
to be enabled, even though the saver interval value remains set to 0,
according to "xset q". (On SGI, the saver interval is used as the time
between screen saver activation and power-saving). So, there may not be
much we can do about this.
Bob
