CLOCK SCREENSAVER

[Daniel Robitaille]

On 4/12/07, Darren Zawislak <hi.darren at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maurice Murphy wrote:
> > Does anyone have any idea how I could obtain what I believe to be the
> > really neat KDE Clock screensaver that came with many KDE-based
> > distros?  I used to use this with Xandros all the time. (Pardon the pun!).
> >
> > For me, the only screensaver that really turns me on in Ubuntu is the
> > blank screen.  All the others, pretty as the may be, seem to be
> > hyperactive or have excited intermittent flashes.  And, as I believe
> > Peter suggested, may cause shut downs to avoid chip overheating problems.
> >
> > As I say, sure would be nice to get the old KDE clock back again :-)
> > :-)  :-)
> >
> > Maurice
> >
> Talking with people, who may or may not be knowledgeable on the topic of
> screen savers............  I recently had a discussion with one IT guy
> who stated that screen savers are not required with LCD screens as there
> is no chance of burning in a ghostly image.
>
> Does anyone else share that opinion?

wikipedia shares that opinion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screensaver
"LCD computer monitors, including the display panels used in laptop
computers, are not susceptible to burn-in because the image is not
directly produced by phosphors (although they can suffer from a less
extreme and usually non-permanent form of image persistence). For
these reasons, screensavers today are primarily decorative or for
entertainment, and usually feature moving images or patterns and
sometimes sound effects."


Personally my screensaver of choice is the blank screen.


-- 
Daniel Robitaille