On Wed, 7 May 1997, Sam Ockman wrote: > Anyone know of any really good looking screen-savers...something like > xlock, but that looks more like something Microsoft will have in Windows > 97? > Hmmm, screen-savers should be activated when there is no activity, in other words when no one is near the screen, hence there is no meaning for a screen-saver to be good looking. Imho a blank screen or even better a shut off monitor is the best screen-saver. In most xservers this is built in.
I can see one reason to have a good looking screen saver in a lock program, that is if you are showing computers to a public audience which is allowed to walk around freely among the computers. I'm sorry but this doesn't really answer your question, but I so irritated of all "cool" cpu-time-eating screen-savers... > Thanks, > Sam /fax -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
