Where is xfce4-screensaver started

[Jarno Suni]

User may want to apply display power management right after desktop
locks. Power manager (if that is what you meant) might not be aware of
locking.

Can you rationalize why screen locking can not be secure?

Still, not everybody wants to shutdown each time they take a break.
Xfce is not just for your needs and for your hardware.


On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 11:06 AM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
>
> Jarno Suni <sunijarno at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 8, 2022 at 11:41 PM Chris Green <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> >
> > > I simply turn all screensavers off and use the power manager to turn
> > > the screen off after some minutes of idleness.  I really see no point
> > > in screensavers nowadays, just a waste of power.
> >
> > Screensavers can lock screen after pre-defined idle time. IIRC you can
> > set xfce4-screensaver to do some display power management.
> > light-locker can also do something like that.
>
> Yes, they *can* do power management but why bother since there's a
> dedicated panel app for doing it which works very reliably in my
> experience (and which is needed for other functions anyway).
>
> Screen locking is really only security by obscurity (well, not quite
> but pretty close).  Also, nowadays, systems boot so quickly I see
> little point in locking/sleeping/snoozing, you may as well turn off
> and save power.
>
> --
> Chris Green
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