On 11/19/2014 02:29 PM, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > On Nov 19, 2014, at 5:31 AM, John Goerzen <jgoer...@complete.org> wrote: > >> 1) The monitor's power is often left on even when the screen is blanked. > There is no way to fix this, because X11 sucks. > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#hysteresis Hi JWZ. Very nice to hear from you.
I am quite sure it's not just that the mouse is getting bumped, because I have observed that the monitor will not enter power-saving mode at all for days, and then after a reboot, it will work again. > >> 2) It seems that notifications from Gajim, Psi, etc. will cause the >> screen to re-awaken. > If by "re-awaken" you mean "powers on", then those apps must be doing that on > purpose. > > But maybe you mean this: > http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#popup-windows Well, both; the monitor powers on and shows those boxes. (Or, hmm, perhaps it wasn't powered off in the first place? I should try to get some data on that...) > >> 3) When moving the mouse or pressing a key to wake up the screen and >> unlock it, frequently the previous content of the screen will show up >> for a few seconds before it is blanked and the logic box shown. > That's because your machine was suspended -- CPU halted -- and what you are > seeing on the screen when it powers back on was put there by BIOS before the > CPU started running again. It halted the CPU with the screen not-yet-blanked, > from xscreensaver's perspective. Likewise, there is no way to fix this, > because Linux sucks. You know, that is possibly the case indeed. Thanks. Thanks for xscreensaver (and Netscape, and XEmace, while I'm at it.) John > > -- > Jamie Zawinski http://www.jwz.org/ http://www.dnalounge.com/ > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
