How to start screensaver

radhika

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Sep 8, 2010, 4:01:43 PM9/8/10

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Hi,

How do I enable screensaver? Can I change the time to display
screensaver?

Thanks,
Radhika

Steve Pirk

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Sep 8, 2010, 5:25:57 PM9/8/10

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I am not sure there is a screensaver function yet. I will look for it. I have seen that the screen blanks completely at around 5 minutes of inactivity.

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Benson Leung

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Sep 9, 2010, 5:09:14 PM9/9/10

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<resending. sorry forgot to switch to chromium account>

Screensaver functionality is coming soon to Chromium OS. Right now, Chromium OS has a custom screen lock that comes on after 10 minutes of inactivity, or if you have suspended the device by closing the lid. You can also bring up the lock screen with a key command : ctl-alt-L

This screen locker will be the basis of the new screensaver.

The screen does blank after 8 minutes on AC power, or 3 minutes on Battery power. Also, note that the screenlocker depends very much on power manager (powerd) being functional as they closely handshake on many operations. If your platform does not have a functional powerd, screenlock may be broken as well.

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Trevor Bourget

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Sep 15, 2010, 12:37:50 PM9/15/10

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startup is still very spotty with chrome browser starting in upper left
corner first, then being repositioned when window manager runs. also,
compositing has to be in use for the login window because of all the
windows.
is it possible to have the login screen be an html5 page so that the
browser could start full screen, before window manager?
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Chris Masone

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Sep 16, 2010, 1:28:07 AM9/16/10

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On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Trevor Bourget <tbou...@codeaurora.org> wrote:

startup is still very spotty with chrome browser starting in upper left corner first, then being repositioned when window manager runs. also, compositing has to be in use for the login window because of all the windows.
is it possible to have the login screen be an html5 page so that the browser could start full screen, before window manager?

Work on this is already underway, but it won't happen before the end of the year; other stuff is higher priority right now, and there are some technical hurdles.

-- trevor

DaveD

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Sep 17, 2010, 2:38:37 PM9/17/10

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Thanks,
What file can I edit to change the default setting form 10 minutes to
60?

On Sep 9, 2:09 pm, Benson Leung <ble...@chromium.org> wrote:
>...Chromium
> OS has a custom screen lock that comes on after 10 minutes of inactivity...

Benson Leung

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Sep 17, 2010, 9:09:05 PM9/17/10

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/var/lib/power_manager/lock_ms.

Create the file if it's not already there to override the default. By default it is 600000. Change to 3600000 to change to 1 hour.

Benson

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