Window fading to black
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Is there a way to turn off windows fading to black? (For example, when you backspace with nothing in the terminal.)
Thanks.
Are you talking about the screensaver? If so, you can go to System > Preferences > Screensaver and uncheck the "Activate screensaver when computer is idle" button.
Compiz Settings Manager, then go to Fading Windows and untick Visual
Bell.
I like the setting though.
Speaking of the visual bell, I would really really love a Firefox plugin
that let me set a limit on the amount of open tabs (thus making it
easier for me to focus and study, damn tab explosions) and would make a
call to the system bell (which is then captured and turned into a visual
bell) when I tried to open a tab in excess of my limit.
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 18:44 +0100, name at domain wrote:
> Is there a way to turn off windows fading to black? (For example, when you
> backspace with nothing in the terminal.)
>
> Thanks.
For the productivity thing try leechblock (http://trisquel.info/en/browser/addons/leechblock). It is a productivity add-ons that lets you block websites (e.g. facebook / youtube). You can also set them to block websites during certain times of the day. That way you can set a lockdown time (e.g. you want to study for 2 hours with no interruptions) so that you can't open those websites for 2 hours.
I find the idea of these apps fascinating; you deliberately install software that imposes restrictions on you. It seems like a free software version of DRM. Sounds crazy to me ... but each to their own I suppose. : )
This is different. You can always turn off the plugin or disable it you really want to.
From Defective by design:
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"Big Media describe DRM as Digital Rights Management. However, since its purpose is to restrict you the user, it is more accurate to describe DRM as Digital Restrictions Management. DRM Technology can restricts users’ access to movies, music, literature and software, indeed all forms of digital data. Unfree software implementing DRM technology is simply a prison in which users can be put to deprive them of the rights that the law would otherwise allow them."
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The key word I see being prison. A plugin like that isn't like being in prison because you are still in control. The plugin is easily disabled. I guess the analogy would be like locking yourself in a room with no TV so you can study but you still have the keys on you so you can easily get out. True DRM would be the same except someone locks you in and you can't get out.
Secondly, you are totally in control of it. You have access to the source code. You control what sites are blocked and for how long. It's simply a productivity tool. I often times find myself getting distracted browsing the web when I should be working. I'm sure this happens to many students and workers. The key again is who has the keys to the locks. You or someone else.
I completely agree, these programs are nothing like DRM really. Although I find it interesting some computer users still feel the need to restrict their own computer use; even if that restriction is self-imposed and self-controlled.
Haha think of it this way. Restrictions are like handcuffs. They are fine if it's your girlfriend putting them on you (yowza!) but I wouldn't want Steve Jobs, Steve Ballmer, or Rupert Murdoch putting them on me.
I dunno speak for yourself .... I'd kinda like the idea of big, bald, sweaty, Steve Ballmer hand cuffing me, while whispering sweet nothings into my ears "developers, developers, developers, developers .... "
I am a translator!
Leechblock is nothing like DRM. It's for people who realize that visiting certain websites amounts to nothing but a grand old waste of their own precious time, so they voluntarily (key word) install it to stop themselves from "accidentally" visiting those websites.
Thanks. That's exactly what I was talking about. :)
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