On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 06:47:25PM +0200, Mario Lang wrote: > Hi. > > Now that Orca really works great these days, I do have a logged in > GNOME session on my workstation all the time. However, since > the braille support for gnome-terminal is still lacking > a few things I really got used to as a long term syssadmin > on the linux console with BRLTTY, I do not do all of my work inside GNOME. > In fact, I spend maybe only 10% of my computer time in a GNOME session, > the rest of the time I just use a plain Linux console to do remote > admin work and all my emacs activities (mail, irc, editing source code...) > > This usage pattern triggers an anoying problem here: The X11 > screen saver has kicked in every time I switch back to my > X11 console (Alt+F7). While I understand why there is a password > prompt, I do argue that the behaviour of the timeout detection > of the X11 screen saver is broken, since it does not > take into account keypresses that might have happened somewhere > else (like on a text console).
Why don't you disable the screensaver altogether? Admin->Preferences->Screensaver. Regards, Bertil _______________________________________________ gnome-accessibility-list mailing list gnome-accessibility-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-accessibility-list
