Comments on: Green bug boring https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2006/11/10/green-bug-boring/ A running description of activity related to DragonFly BSD. Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:23:42 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Joe "Floid" Kanowitz https://www.dragonflydigest.com/2006/11/10/green-bug-boring/comment-page-1/#comment-3295 Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:23:42 +0000 http://www.shiningsilence.com/dbsdlog/index.php/2006/11/10/1963.html#comment-3295 Of course, you can enjoy the ‘best of both worlds’ by using a screensaver to warn you of the impending DPMS event. This also saves a lot of wear and tear on your CRT if you still use one, and of course is kind of necessary if you want screen locking for privacy.

Of course, if you’re trying to save power or heat, don’t use a CPU- or GPU-intensive hack, since it’ll happily continue running while the display is dark. This is especially noticable on a laptop or when I end up Xnested into an account with an OpenGL saver — Xnest only allows software rendering…

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