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xfce-mcs-plugins package

xubuntu screensaver disabling is hidden very deep

Bug #81319 reported by Henning Sprang
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
xfce-mcs-plugins (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
Gauvain Pocentek

Bug Description

When installing and running the xubuntu-desktop, the xscreensaver is enabled by default.

That is no bad thing by itself, but the menus don't show the option to disable it.

It takes quite some time to go through all options in the settings menu (and, because one expects the screensaver setting there, one goes through them double and triple), and really drives one crazy.

Only after finding the right google search, I found this- so it's a long existing problem:

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=339855

As for documentation/resolving: running xfce-setting-show shows a full xfce settings dialog, where the option screensaver can be found. There should also be a button in the setting menu for this.

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Henning Sprang (henning) wrote : Re: [Bug 81319] Re: xubuntu screensaver disabling is hidden very deep

Brian Murray wrote:
> ** Changed in: Ubuntu
> Sourcepackagename: None => xfce
> Importance: Undecided => Wishlist
>

I don't agree completely with setting this low importance: the current
systems menu let one set every other important aspect, and, as I said,
one can easily waste a lot of time, searching for it, because a lot of
the other menus look as they _could_ contain the screensaver setting
(view, desktop, I think about 3 or 4 ) - resulting in longer searching
without a result.
I am surely no Linux newbie, only an xfce newbie, and the only
workaround I found before getting the right google search was "killall
xscreensaver"

And to some people it is really annoying to have a screensaver started.

So, in relation to how easy it is probably to add a "screensaver" icon
to the setting menu, this bug should be normal importance (somehow I
didn't set that right, sorry).

I think I don't care so much for myself, now that I know the workaround,
and I probably will go back to using gnome soon, but it really gave me a
bad time - I only want to help making xubuntu-desktop get better!

Henning

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Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek) wrote :

FYI you can use the "settings manager' menu item instead of running the command.

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Henning Sprang (henning) wrote :

Gauvain Pocentek wrote:
> FYI you can use the "settings manager' menu item instead of running the
> command.
>

Hmm, interesting, then it's really easier to reach than I thought, and
easiert than a google search revealed.

But then, theres another usability problem(without which I had probably
found it):

Why are nearly, but not all, buttons available in the settings manager
repeated again in the settings menu?

If in the settings menu there where only the settings manager, plus the
2 or three things that aren't available in there, I'd for sure had tried
that and found the screensaver settings.

Or, if in the setting menu all things from the settinmgs manager were
available, it can also be found.

Also bad: the settings buttons have different names in the settings
manager and in the settings menu - this is very confusing.

Henning

Gauvain Pocentek (gpocentek)
Changed in xfce:
status: Unconfirmed → In Progress
Changed in xfce-mcs-plugins:
assignee: nobody → gauvainpocentek
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Jani Monoses (jani) wrote :

screensaver preferences appear in the applications->settings menu

Changed in xfce-mcs-plugins:
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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