Screen Saver

[Ray Parrish]

Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> Ahh Ray Parrish, you are the one that better calm down.  I've followed you
> thread from start to finish but it's so long that I and I expect most everyone else can't remember all the things suggested and tried.  Your attitude is not one that inspires the list to help you.  And your response to the one offering a suggestion below is uncalled for even if you've tried it. You need to either grow up or turn the heat on sooner when cold weather comes so it doesn't freeze your brain.  There was no call for your response to the person trying to help you out.  Frankly, I don' t give a damn if you ever solve your screen saver issue as it's not a critical problem anyway.
>
> fwiw.
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net
>
>
> --- On Fri, 1/9/09, Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Ray Parrish <crp at cmc.net>
>> Subject: Re: Screen Saver
>> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
>> Date: Friday, January 9, 2009, 10:18 PM
>> steve wrote:
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>>> Ray Parrish wrote:
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>>>>>> It didn't, the damn thing still works,
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>> even 'though I removed 
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>>>>>> gnome-screensaver with Synaptic. So...
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>> just how the hell do you get rid 
>>     
>>>>>> of the screen saver in Ubuntu?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The thing that really irks me is that I
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>> never turned it on in the first 
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>>>>>> place, all I did was review the available
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>> screen savers, and now it will 
>>     
>>>>>> NOT shut off.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Later, Ray
>>>>>>
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>>>>> im going to assume you tried this already, but
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>> here it is anyway....
>>     
>>>>> system> preferences> uncheck
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>> "activate screensaver when idle"
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>>>>> i hate screensavers too, and its always worked
>>>>>           
>> for me. good luck.
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>>>> If you want to help, at least read the thread
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>> first... 
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>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> well im going to suggest you walk away from the
>>>       
>> computer for a while,
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>>> its obvious by your tone you have had more than enough
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>> for one day.
>>     
>>> were all here to help, it was only a suggestion.
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>> Actually, I'm pretty calm, it just burns me when people
>> like you jump in 
>> and make really stupid suggestions before reading the whole
>> thread first 
>> to see what has already been tried.
>>
>> I've been using computers for over 20 years, and
>> I'm smart enough to try 
>> telling the program not to start first, yet you assumed I
>> was just some 
>> idiot that didn't know how to run a computer, and gave
>> your idiotic 
>> suggestion that I uncheck the box that starts the
>> screensaver. duuuhhhh.....
>>
>> Later, Ray Parrish
>>
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MY attitude??? Really long thread??? I just started this thread 
yesterday, and not that many suggestions have been given or tried. I 
have seen people on this group jumped on for posting solutions to 
problems they had without asking a question, and being accused of 
blogging for it. Frankly I think posts of that type are useful as they 
provide solutions to problems that someone else might have sometime.

 Yet, I can't jump on someone for not paying attention, and giving a 
totally non-technical suggestion that only a very stupid first time 
computer user would have missed in the first place.

Your personal insults are not appreciated, and I frankly think you are 
the one that needs to grow up.

By the way, whatever happened to bottom posting? I've had my ass chewed 
several times for top posting, and have learned the "Ubuntu way" of 
bottom posting so I don't offend anyone on here, yet you top post your 
insults. Evidently the rules don't apply to you.

I didn't even jump on the guy that hard to begin with. All I did in my 
first reply to him is suggest that he read the thread first before 
offering suggestions. It's when he replied back and suggested that I 
needed to "calm down and walk away from the computer for a while" that I 
actually got a little mad.

I'm polite when other people are polite to me. Always... It's obvious 
you've never hung out in the Microsoft newsgroups where flame wars are 
rampant, and it's hard to follow any threads because of the trolls who 
only criticize other people without contributing any solutions.

I'm actually looking for a solution here, but it seems none are 
forthcoming. That's too bad. I've tried all of the suggestions given 
here, and for some mad reason the screen saver insists on running even 
with no screen saver software installed on my computer now. How the hell 
is it doing that?

I'm sorry you don't like my attitude, but then I don't like yours 
either, and don't give a damn if you ever answer any of my questions. 
I'm sure there are plenty of other people who like to actually help 
instead of criticizing people who will help.

As to "it's not a critical problem anyway" I say that that is a pretty 
sad attitude YOU have there. Computers are supposed to do what you tell 
them to, not what the hell they please. It's a pretty critical problem 
when they start doing things they aren't supposed to do, and this needs 
to be solved somehow if Ubuntu is ever going to be considered a usable 
platform that can be used by the masses.

Sure I'm willing to give up some of my comfort to live a greener life, 
by leaving the heat off and wearing a coat in the house... but there was 
no reason whatsoever for you to turn it into an insult. Do you give up 
any of your comforts to help the world be a greener place? I bet not.

I'm beginning to understand what the guy on the Linux Haters blog was on 
about. Some of you people on this group are really arrogant, and treat 
people who just started using Linux like they are stupid because they 
have been using Windows up until now.

Most of your answers to questions contain instructions to run some 
command in Terminal, instead of using the existing gui tools in Ubuntu. 
Sure, Linux is powerful that way, and it's nice to have the ability to 
dig into the workings of the system in a way you just can't on Windows, 
but give the new users a break and let them in on the easy way first 
before you give them cryptic commands to run that they can't even tell 
are safe.

I used Synaptic Package Manager to do the removals of the screen saver, 
as I don't think apt would inform me of the additional dependent 
packages that would be removed. Maybe I'm wrong, but Synaptic is a very 
well designed Package Manager that keeps track of things for you very 
well. It shows you where it installs things, and even keeps track of 
when and what you have installed in it's History. Start using it, and 
teaching others to use it, it's a great package.

That's all for now. Later, Ray Parrish

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