Introduction and questions

[GregO]

hmm, I am here because I have Power Manger configured similarly to smhardesty, but my laptop display goes nuts flickering endlessly on the Display Brightness setting after 10 minutes instead of just going blank...must be a driver thing.

I am thinking about installing a screensaver and getting away from Display Power Management, after reading this thread maybe I should make a fundamental change in my behavior and quit walking away from my laptop while it is full awake. hmmmm. I like to tinker and I am almost certainly going to try to install Xscreensaver

I have Handle display power management unchecked and it goes blank on my Dell.

I ended up setting it to never and have my desktop background changing randomly every minute to act as a screensaver.

[pieboy314]

I have Handle display power management unchecked and it goes blank on my Dell.

I ended up setting it to never and have my desktop background changing randomly every minute to act as a screensaver.

Yes, I ended up also setting power management display to 'never' and installed Xscreensaver. I am liking it very much so far. I appreciate that screensavers are unnecessary, but I like 'em

[newtusmaximus]

JanetBiggar, You might want to try an earlier version of LL 32 bit.  My old Toshiba Satellite pro A10 with 2 x 512 MB RAM, ran very well on LL 2.8 32 bit  but struggled on LL 3.0.  I believe the Kernel on LL 2.8 was V3.19? and I am not sure for how much longer it will be supported.  Perhaps others in the forum could advise the End Of Life date for Kernel 3.19  and what risks there would be by running the Kernel beyond its supported date?    All power to your mission in SA.

[JanetBiggar]

JanetBiggar, You might want to try an earlier version of LL 32 bit.  My old Toshiba Satellite pro A10 with 2 x 512 MB RAM, ran very well on LL 2.8 32 bit  but struggled on LL 3.0... All power to your mission in SA.

Sorry, I just saw this today. I appreciate your thoughts on the Toshiba given that yours is similar. Actually maybe you were referencing the old Dell I was working on with 512 mb - either way so far LL 3.4 seems to be working on them fine and no doubt what I’m using them for doesn’t challenge these computers as much perhaps as regular everyday stuff we would put ours through.  The guys are soaking up the access to study stuff and internet access/ability when I can arrange it so so far so good with LL 3.4

Thanks for your comment on my SA work ?

[newtusmaximus]

JanetBiggar, what software do your students use the most? Are they all Linux variants or do you use windows  programs on WINE?

[GregO]

[quote author=GregO link=topic=4506.msg40198#msg40198 date=1522876039]

I have Handle display power management unchecked and it goes blank on my Dell.

I ended up setting it to never and have my desktop background changing randomly every minute to act as a screensaver.

Yes, I ended up also setting power management display to 'never' and installed Xscreensaver. I am liking it very much so far. I appreciate that screensavers are unnecessary, but I like 'em
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I like them too, and I'd probably install it if I knew how to do it.

[pieboy314]

[quote author=pieboy314 link=topic=4506.msg40218#msg40218 date=1522958503]
[quote author=GregO link=topic=4506.msg40198#msg40198 date=1522876039]

I have Handle display power management unchecked and it goes blank on my Dell.

I ended up setting it to never and have my desktop background changing randomly every minute to act as a screensaver.

Yes, I ended up also setting power management display to 'never' and installed Xscreensaver. I am liking it very much so far. I appreciate that screensavers are unnecessary, but I like 'em
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I like them too, and I'd probably install it if I knew how to do it.
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piece of cake, this command in a terminal window is how I did it.

Code:

sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-data-extra

*JanetBiggar, I am sorry for partially hijacking your thread.

[GregO]

[quote author=GregO link=topic=4506.msg40275#msg40275 date=1523313414]
[quote author=pieboy314 link=topic=4506.msg40218#msg40218 date=1522958503]
[quote author=GregO link=topic=4506.msg40198#msg40198 date=1522876039]

I have Handle display power management unchecked and it goes blank on my Dell.

I ended up setting it to never and have my desktop background changing randomly every minute to act as a screensaver.

Yes, I ended up also setting power management display to 'never' and installed Xscreensaver. I am liking it very much so far. I appreciate that screensavers are unnecessary, but I like 'em
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I like them too, and I'd probably install it if I knew how to do it.
[/quote]

piece of cake, this command in a terminal window is how I did it.

Code:

sudo apt-get install xscreensaver xscreensaver-gl-extra xscreensaver-data-extra

*JanetBiggar, I am sorry for partially hijacking your thread.
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Kewl, it works well.

I searched around last night after my post, and I found an install on youtube, but it seemed there was more to it than this.

Thanks alot for the command.

Sorry on my end Janet as well.