On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 07:35:24AM -0700, Patrick Bartek wrote: > Or do what I did: dispense with a screensaver entirely. Haven't used > one in years. Waste of CPU cycles. Besides modern computer screens > don't even need them anymore. They aren't prone to image burning > like tube-type monitors were. I just use xset or a power management > utility, if installed, to "sleep" the monitor display after a set time > of system idleness. Works great.
For many of us, the primary function of the screen saver isn't the prevention of image burn-in, but rather the locking of the session to prevent other people from taking control when we step away. Personally I use i3lock for this. Nice and simple. I don't use any kind of automatic invocation or idle checking. I just manually run it when I'm about to step away. (Used to use xlock, from xlockmore, but that was removed from Debian several releases ago.)
