XScreenSaver

Kelvin Woods kelvin at zednought.net
Wed Oct 17 03:33:53 PDT 2007


On Wed, October 17, 2007 08:48, Bruce Alcock wrote:
> Hi
>
> My XScreenSaver is configured to come on and then a bit later suspend
> the
> monitors...now this works, but only sometimes actually gets around to
> suspending the monitors. I emailed the author a while ago about it and
> he
> suggested I turned on logging...there doesn't seem to be an option in
> XScreenSaver for logging, so my question is what logging is he talking
> about
> and how do I use it? (he thought the mouse was moving ever so slightly
> every
> now and then, but this isn't the case since I unplugged my mouse last
> night
> and it still didn't suspend)
>
> Thanks
> Bruce Alcock

Bruce,

Read the manpage "-verbose" option. Logging is sent to stderr, you
might need to pipe it to a file.

This might be a problem with ACPI rather than the XScreenSaver
software itself.

-- 
Kelvin
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