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Re: About Xscreensaver

 

Really? I've never had this problem, VM or not.

Which screensaver are you using? I'm using GLMatrix.

wxl/walter

On 12/23/2011 05:13 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> Thanks Julien,
>
> I always forget to disable it and then wonder why my CPU usage on my
> latest VM install is driving my CPU so high after about 10 minutes
> when I am on my 'main' system.
>
> Less is more :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     Le 12/23/2011 10:16 PM, Jean-Pierre Vidal Piesset a écrit :
>     > It has been pointed in the past, that for old machines Xcreensaver
>     > makes everything sluggish (i can make proof of it because some
>     > installations of Lubuntu have crashed because it tries to launch
>     > xcreensaver and everything falls apart AND in my pentium 3 @1000mhz
>     > the first thing i cut is the screensaver because it slows the whole
>     > system)
>     > If I remember correctly, drop xcreensaver was a bad idea just
>     for the
>     > blocking screen.
>     > I've been using a little Ubuntu 11.10 and I'm wondering if they
>     still
>     > use a screensaver at all. Maybe they are using something different
>     > just to block the screen?
>     > If yes, maybe we could use the same thing and cut xcreensaver from
>     > Lubuntu.
>     >
>     They are using compiz to lock the screen, so we can't use the same :)
>     1 thing I will change for 12.04 is to change the behavior by default,
>     using only a blank screen instead of the animated one. It should be
>     nicer for your type of configuration.
>
>     Regards,
>     Julien Lavergne
>
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