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Further burn-in prevention

Open tausgus opened this issue 3 years ago • 5 comments

It'd be pretty convenient to have a setting for automatically switching sources, and/or a setting to dim or even turn off the display if there is no keypress activity for a set amount of time.

tausgus avatar Feb 20 '22 12:02 tausgus

Agree, I'll put it on my TODO list. From what I can tell there's no option to dim the screen though. There's only on or off.

not-jan avatar Feb 20 '22 12:02 not-jan

I had an idea to prevent at least some burn-in, it would be to "move the display" maybe 1 pixel every x seconds (maybe only in 1 axis or both?), I don't know if that is possible, but I think that it could reduce the possibility of having some burn-in

jehendeoff avatar Apr 23 '23 18:04 jehendeoff

It could be combined with #13 as a sort of screensaver :)

not-jan avatar Apr 23 '23 18:04 not-jan

I thought about it, but I thought it would be more complicated to implement gifs than to "shift" the screen a few pixels.

jehendeoff avatar Apr 23 '23 18:04 jehendeoff

I had another idea, and that would be to have screensavers relative to the screen we're on, for example if we are on the music screen, maybe an equalizer can be the screen saver (bonus point if it's actually an equalizer), a fan spinning for the sysinfo, a digital clock for the clock, and falling coins for the btc.

I know adding screensavers would take a lot of time (and my ideas aren't going to help), that's why I think screensavers should be the last things to implement, because I think just changing screen alone should pass before to avoid burn-in

jehendeoff avatar Apr 24 '23 19:04 jehendeoff