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I haven't been able to get acmonitor to work for me for the last two SSUs. But if you could get it working again, perhaps you could modify the concept for me so that I could run a user-selected app when plugged into AC. So rather than fancy effects or silly fortunes, I'd like to see a flip clock or a slide show or maybe a slide show with a clock in the corner... something useful, anyway.
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(preface: this isn't a slam against you, qwerty12, you're excellent in every way )
Funny! This installed as part of Ubuntu LXDE for me, and while some of the effects are nice (I like the waterdrops) I was thinking as I disabled it, "What a silly thing to ever put on a tablet!" Screensavers haven't been useful for their primary purpose ("saving" your screen) since LCDs replaced CRTs on most people's desktops. They can be useful for locking your station (that's what my office uses xscreensaver for), but on a tablet, the whole concept runs counter to the philosophy of the tablets, which is all about saving power by killing the screen and the cpu whenever possible.
I haven't been able to get acmonitor to work for me for the last two SSUs. But if you could get it working again, perhaps you could modify the concept for me so that I could run a user-selected app when plugged into AC. So rather than fancy effects or silly fortunes, I'd like to see a flip clock or a slide show or maybe a slide show with a clock in the corner... something useful, anyway.
This is quickly done and I would have like to modified the gui a bit but it uses glade which I can't do nothing with (well, I can't do much with much else but you get the point...)
If you value battery life, you probably don't want this. It wakes up the screen and uses a lot of cpu.
If you want to install it, get the *.deb files from http://qwerty12.maemobox.org/xscreensaver/ and use dpkg -i.
Namely:
xscreensaver_5.07-1_armel.deb
xscreensaver-data_5.07-1_armel.deb
xscreensaver-data-extra_5.07-1_armel.deb
If you want to be able to see the settings window properly, install:
wmctrl_1.07-6_armel.deb
You may need to install libxxf86vm1_1.0.2-1_armel.deb as xscreensaver depends on it.
Post 6 contains a daemon that will automatically start and stop xscreensaver if your charger is plugged in and not plugged in respectively.
Last edited by qwerty12; 2009-01-05 at 18:33.