[gentoo-amd64] Slideshow screensaver with multiple monitors

[gentoo-amd64] Slideshow screensaver with multiple monitors

[Hamie]

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Hi.

Has anyone managed to get the screensaver (KDE) when in slideshow with photos 
to display a whole photo per monitor, rather than trying to display a single 
photo spread out over multiple monitors?

Other than that it works fine... But since my monitors are different sizes & 
dpi it would look a great deal better if each screen had its own photo (This 
is running X in either real xinerama, or pseudo xinerama modes).

TIA
  Hamish.



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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Slideshow screensaver with multiple monitors

[Duncan]

Hamie <hamish@travellingkiwi.com> posted
200707131759.16023.hamish@travellingkiwi.com, excerpted below, on  Fri, 13
Jul 2007 17:59:13 +0100:

> Has anyone managed to get the screensaver (KDE) when in slideshow with
> photos to display a whole photo per monitor, rather than trying to
> display a single photo spread out over multiple monitors?
> 
> Other than that it works fine... But since my monitors are different
> sizes & dpi it would look a great deal better if each screen had its own
> photo (This is running X in either real xinerama, or pseudo xinerama
> modes).

FWIW, while I'm a KDE guy, I don't normally run screensavers.  Rather, I 
have the system put my monitors to sleep.  Or sometimes I run amarok or 
kaffeine with visualizations (on one or both screens, they're 21 and 22 
inch, so close enough, and both 1600x1200) and don't have them go to 
sleep.  The amarok corona visualization can be quite restful.

To each his own, of course, but I just never found most screensavers 
useful or interesting after the novelty wore off, in part due to issues 
such as the one you mention.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Slideshow screensaver with multiple monitors

[Hamie]

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On Friday 13 July 2007 19:02, Duncan wrote:
> Hamie <hamish@travellingkiwi.com> posted
> 200707131759.16023.hamish@travellingkiwi.com, excerpted below, on  Fri, 13
>
> Jul 2007 17:59:13 +0100:
> > Has anyone managed to get the screensaver (KDE) when in slideshow with
> > photos to display a whole photo per monitor, rather than trying to
> > display a single photo spread out over multiple monitors?
> >
> > Other than that it works fine... But since my monitors are different
> > sizes & dpi it would look a great deal better if each screen had its own
> > photo (This is running X in either real xinerama, or pseudo xinerama
> > modes).
>
> FWIW, while I'm a KDE guy, I don't normally run screensavers.  Rather, I
> have the system put my monitors to sleep.  Or sometimes I run amarok or
> kaffeine with visualizations (on one or both screens, they're 21 and 22
> inch, so close enough, and both 1600x1200) and don't have them go to
> sleep.  The amarok corona visualization can be quite restful.
>
> To each his own, of course, but I just never found most screensavers
> useful or interesting after the novelty wore off, in part due to issues
> such as the one you mention.
>

They're useful to lock the screen. My laptop lives on my desk @ work during 
the day. Since I work in a security area the computers have to be locked when 
we step away from them. 

Using a screen saver for this is handy, because not only does KDE have a 
useful lock button, it also timesout and starts when KDE has bene idle for a 
time so if I get distracted it does it for me.

It also means my screen isn't viewable by passers by if I'm not in front of 
it...

Hamish.

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[gentoo-amd64] Re: Slideshow screensaver with multiple monitors

[Duncan]

Hamie <hamish@travellingkiwi.com> posted
200707132228.34394.hamish@travellingkiwi.com, excerpted below, on  Fri, 13
Jul 2007 22:28:31 +0100:

> They're useful to lock the screen. My laptop lives on my desk @ work
> during the day. Since I work in a security area the computers have to be
> locked when we step away from them.
> 
> Using a screen saver for this is handy, because not only does KDE have a
> useful lock button, it also timesout and starts when KDE has bene idle
> for a time so if I get distracted it does it for me.
> 
> It also means my screen isn't viewable by passers by if I'm not in front
> of it...

That's what the "blank" screensaver's for! =8^)  Set it to activate/lock 
1 minute before the power turns off, or at the same time.

However, at least once one switches to LCDs so the energy burn isn't so 
high, in a public place, yes, a tasteful screensaver can be nice.

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