Bug 54699

Summary:	RFE: Disable wallpaper and screensaver when desktop is shared
Product:	[Applications] krfb	Reporter:	mnimbus
Component:	general	Assignee:	Alessandro Praduroux <pradu>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	chealer
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description mnimbus 2003-02-16 01:36:21 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.1)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
Compiler:          gcc 3.2.1 
OS:          Linux

I'd like to see two options added to make remote access of the desktop easier.

1.  Option to remove the wallpaper whenever a connection is made to share the desktop.

2.  Option to use the blank screensaver when a connection is made.  Or, it might be easier to simply not show the screen on the VNC connection whenever the screensaver is activated.

Comment 1 tim 2003-02-16 02:00:24 UTC

1 is already implemented in HEAD.

Comment 2 Brian T. McKee 2004-12-02 02:11:01 UTC

How about 2?

I have to keep my screensaver simple because of this so I can log in to work from home. And I really love Euphoria...

Comment 3 Jason Keirstead 2007-05-01 13:16:53 UTC

This would be a great feature (to atuomatically switch to screen blanking screensaver while remoted)

I hate stepping away from my desk for a minute to come back to a VNC session with this crazy OpenGL screensaver going on knowing it was sucking up a ton of internet bandwidth.

Comment 4 Philippe Cloutier 2014-10-24 12:52:07 UTC

According to bug 334425, 1. is not implemented or not working in a distribution released in 2014.