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[Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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