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Quote from: GregO on April 09, 2018, 06:36:54 PMQuote from: pieboy314 on April 05, 2018, 04:01:43 PMQuote from: GregO on April 04, 2018, 05:07:19 PMI have Handle display power management unchecked and it goes blank on my Dell. I ended up setting it to never and have my desktop background changing randomly every minute to act as a screensaver.Yes, I ended up also setting power management display to 'never' and installed Xscreensaver. I am liking it very much so far. I appreciate that screensavers are unnecessary, but I like 'emI like them too, and I'd probably install it if I knew how to do it.piece of cake, this command in a terminal window is how I did it.Code: [Select]sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-data-extra*JanetBiggar, I am sorry for partially hijacking your thread.
Quote from: pieboy314 on April 05, 2018, 04:01:43 PMQuote from: GregO on April 04, 2018, 05:07:19 PMI have Handle display power management unchecked and it goes blank on my Dell. I ended up setting it to never and have my desktop background changing randomly every minute to act as a screensaver.Yes, I ended up also setting power management display to 'never' and installed Xscreensaver. I am liking it very much so far. I appreciate that screensavers are unnecessary, but I like 'emI like them too, and I'd probably install it if I knew how to do it.
Quote from: GregO on April 04, 2018, 05:07:19 PMI have Handle display power management unchecked and it goes blank on my Dell. I ended up setting it to never and have my desktop background changing randomly every minute to act as a screensaver.Yes, I ended up also setting power management display to 'never' and installed Xscreensaver. I am liking it very much so far. I appreciate that screensavers are unnecessary, but I like 'em
I have Handle display power management unchecked and it goes blank on my Dell. I ended up setting it to never and have my desktop background changing randomly every minute to act as a screensaver.
sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-data-extra
JanetBiggar, You might want to try an earlier version of LL 32 bit. My old Toshiba Satellite pro A10 with 2 x 512 MB RAM, ran very well on LL 2.8 32 bit but struggled on LL 3.0... All power to your mission in SA.
hmm, I am here because I have Power Manger configured similarly to smhardesty, but my laptop display goes nuts flickering endlessly on the Display Brightness setting after 10 minutes instead of just going blank...must be a driver thing.I am thinking about installing a screensaver and getting away from Display Power Management, after reading this thread maybe I should make a fundamental change in my behavior and quit walking away from my laptop while it is full awake. hmmmm. I like to tinker and I am almost certainly going to try to install Xscreensaver
Not yet sure what I'll do regarding a screen saver as all these older laptops are most commonly 2008 era 'give or take'.