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gnome-screensaver package

  1. Bug #257358
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 257358

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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: [Bug 257358] Re: Screensaver "Blank Screen" should use DPMS

2009/6/10 Darwin Award Winner <email address hidden>:
> I agree that using DPMS to blank the screen should not be the default on
> CRT monitors, just on LCDs.

That wasn't what I said though. :-)

I think that on all screens, 'just blank' should mean 'dpms standby'.

According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_Display_Power_Management_Signaling
any monitor should be able to recover from that state in 1s.

I don't see any reason not to use it on CRTs, when I had one it worked
as DPMS says.

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Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>