On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:15, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 12:49:57PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: >> >> Personally, I trust xscreensaver a lot more than the KDE or Gnome >> screensavers. >> >> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#kde >> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/toolkits.html > > How do you know for sure if the screen saver stops to show graphics > when DPMS turns off the signal to the monitor? It's what keeps me from > using a screen saver, I don't want it to be active when the monitor is > off.
Xscreensaver has support for this, see the power management section in man xscreensaver for details. I cannot think of how to actually verify that it is happening. Me, I just trust jwz. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]