On Saturday 11 April 2015 06:18:25 Curt wrote: > On 2015-04-10, Bret Busby <bret.bu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > unwittingly and unwillingly, running the application, thus, as it > > stands, the application is a trojan horse. > > Is this hyperbole (hyper hyper), or do you really believe what you're > saying?
Be carefull who you are calling delusional. I am with Bret on this one. IMO, such an application should be both easy (its not) to find in the system menu's, AND when found, should first show you the existing settings before it changes anything, so the user if happy with what he sees, can exit the utility WITHOUT that utility issueing a refresh write of its own. The wheezy version apparently isn't capable of that totally benign operation when I see the main drive led blink everytime its exited. While you may personally think its ok, I have first hand experience with the stuff. Wheezy has a wild pointer someplace that nullifies ones screensaver and power saver settings, typically withion 30 hours of the last settings. My solution to this is a cron job, that using xset, refreshes the desired time settings at a slightly off the hour schedule every hour. I have no clue why I should have to deal with this, but if I shut it off right now, I will get up Monday morning to find the monitor has been up at full brightness and power all night. Looks something like this xset +dpms xset dpms time time time. works for me. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/201504111059.54350.ghesk...@wdtv.com
