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Message 8426 - Posted: 5 Jan 2006, 15:05:26 UTC

Hi. I know that we should be happy to even HAVE a screen saver, but is there a chance you could make the immobile portions move around a bit?

I know that screen burn-in is largely a thing of the past, but almost every other project that has graphics has implemented a graphic that moved completely :)

Thanks.
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Message 8428 - Posted: 5 Jan 2006, 15:11:45 UTC

Oh, my, and here I was loving it because it did not wiggle so much! :)

Heck took me a week or two to get the SETI@Home screen saver so it would look almost like the classic one ... and did not wiggle ...

Well, maybe a wiggle/no wiggle option I suppose ...
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Message 8465 - Posted: 6 Jan 2006, 5:12:12 UTC


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Message 8495 - Posted: 6 Jan 2006, 19:26:18 UTC

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Message 8504 - Posted: 6 Jan 2006, 21:17:09 UTC - in response to Message 8495.  

If as a consolation, perhaps the movements could be much more subtle.

Moving by only a few pixels every 10 minutes is all that would be required to lightly protect a screen.

I agree that the gyrating screen saver of SETI@Home is a little "disco-ball" like for me, but something here absolutely has to be done.
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Message 8593 - Posted: 8 Jan 2006, 14:02:53 UTC - in response to Message 8504.  

[quote]Moving by only a few pixels every 10 minutes is all that would be required to lightly protect a screen.quote]

Well as screen burn no longer really exsists anymore why would the screensaver need to move lightly to protect the screen??

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Message 8797 - Posted: 11 Jan 2006, 19:43:32 UTC

humm for people who are worried about screen burnin or such.. most new monitors dont have problems like that

a consideration may be that ever 5 or 10 or so min the screen could shift a bit.. that would prevent the worry of screen burnin and would also keep the system from gyrating so much that its anoying.???

or mabey a customisable shift screen every 1-100 min with a dont move screen box?


just some ideas
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Message 9100 - Posted: 15 Jan 2006, 19:56:15 UTC - in response to Message 8593.  

[quote]Moving by only a few pixels every 10 minutes is all that would be required to lightly protect a screen.quote]

Well as screen burn no longer really exsists anymore why would the screensaver need to move lightly to protect the screen??


because screen burn DOES still exist.
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