On Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:01:41 +0000, g wrote: [...] > screensaver is a misnomer. > > intent of a screensaver is to keep from burning an image into phosphor, > while in process, it is still burning phosphor. > > if you really want to save your screen, then use 'blank'. this will not > burn phosphor and give added life over what a graphic screensaver takes > away. False hypothesis : I don't want to save my screen. Every monitor I've ever had to replace died of something else. I do want to run xscreensaver: it may owe its name to historical accident, but it's still one of the art forms of the Internet, and I enjoy it. Jede Kunst traegt zur groessten aller Kuenste bei, der Lebenskunst -- Bertolt Brecht. (In English, roughly, "Every art contributes to the greatest of all the arts, the art of living.") All hail Jamie Zawinski et al.! -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines