Idea #1348: Default to Blank Screen instead of Screensaver.

Written by bgfeldm the 29 Feb 08 at 12:38. Category: System.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

Description

1. Default to blanking screen instead of screensaver will lower power consumption of computers and lengthening the life of monitors.
2. Have a way to uninstall screensaver.
3. Make screensavers an optional application on setup.

Tags: power screensaver

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Eproxus wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 12:46

Blanks screen does not save power or save life on all monitors (e.g. LCD). In fact, white is more power saving than black sometimes.

For further information see here: http://techlogg.com/content/view/317/

johno wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 12:53

By blank screen, the poster would have meant blanking it via power management. That really does save power, and lots of it - as it turns the backlight off. With power management modes on all monitors now, it should be the default.

Also, why is the minimum power management screen blanking via the GUI 11 minutes? It seems way to long for battery power mode on a laptop.

Auzy wrote on the 8 Mar 08 at 02:32

Also, screensavers with flashy graphics use more CPU.

programad wrote on the 11 Mar 08 at 17:20

I think is better to DIM the screen, like Xbox360 does.

Ubun2ideas wrote on the 1 Jul 08 at 20:48

If I want to turn off my backlit laptop screen, I use either of the following commands:

sleep 10; xset s activate
or
sleep 10; xset dpms force off

sleep 1; gnome-screensaver-command --lock; sleep 10; xset s activate
will also lock the screen.

I assume these commands will work on other monitors as well.

Check out my related idea:

http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/10585/
Idea #10585: Give 'Lock Screen' applet option to 'Power Down Screen' -- useful for laptop

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