The closest the Pandora currently has to the type of desktop OS features you are talking about was introduced in HF6, now on alpha4 version. It still isn't what you are wanting though. As there is no control of switching on a screensaver after your choice of minutes, no choice of any animated screensavers (you'd have to provide your own to lessen NAND space use by things many wouldn't want), no choice of setting the system to go into low power mode after a time of choice sat idle and no 'power plan' schemes to choose from, like say a laptop might feature. It also wont do as say an iTouch or smartphone would do and simply switch its self to lower standby useage if left idle. Though I've no idea if such behaviours are configurable on iOS / smartphone environments either.
What you can do, is either :
Use the power switch to go into low power mode when your not using it (as was always available)
Use the new 'lid close settings' (menu>settings>Lid-Close-Settings) to switch between :
Turning the screen off when you close the lid (normal behaviour and handy fi you don't want wi-fi to switch off when you quickly have to put the Pandora down/pocket it)
Go into low power mode when you close the lid (will kill wi-fi)
Shutdown the Pandora when you close the lid
Okay, for the screensaver switching the screen off, you'll need these links if you want it gone, if you haven't already removed that feature/bug.
http://boards.openpa...f4-screensaver/ (the first post to mention this issue since HF4. Also contains a cartoon of pure quality the board wont let be linked)
http://www.gp32x.de...post__p__919648 (The fix for this screenblanking issue and help for if you get it wrong and cant reboot)
Recreated below here:
sudo mousepad /etc/X11/xorg.conf from the terminal.
add the following lines to the bottom of the file but you need to copy the way the other lines are layed out already in this file. With tabbing and spacing.
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "BlankTime" "0"
EndSection
It will look more like this:
Section "ServerFlags"
Option "BlankTime" "0"
EndSection
Then
save the file and
exit the file.
Then
reboot.
If it works, you'll reboot fine and no longer have the screen switching off after any idle time.
If it fails, the Pandora will hang during the reboot just before the end of the blue progress bar completes.
It will hang here for just over 5 minutes.
Dont panic.
It will then drop to a terminal like console saying
ANGSTROM at the top and it will ask you for your username.
Type in your
username and press
enter.
It will ask for your password.
Type in your
password (possibly blindly) and press
enter.
Then do as Prometheus says here (from the same thread above)
http://www.gp32x.de...post__p__919888
Type
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf
This will re-open the xorg.conf file you edited incorrectly earlier with nano rather than mousepad.
Attempt to alter the spacing/tabbing of the additional lines you wrote.
Then as Prometheus said :
Press
CTRL+O (to "Write Out" the file)
Press
ENTER (to confirm that you want to save it),
Press
CTRL+X (to exit nano)
Then type :
sudo shutdown or
sudo shutdown -h now (to shut the Pandora down)
Reboot it and "When it comes back up again, it will be able to boot into X normally".
Now if you also go to page 2 of the support section you'll find this recent thread
http://boards.openpa...creen-blanking/ which goes over this process in even more detail.
I was certain a link to the orginal threads above about this, was already listed in the
pinned Tips&Tweaks thread at the top of the support section but it no longer seems to be there, despite Disco Devil referencing it in his first post in the thread I last linked.
Is there anychance that a moderator can add one of many threads about this issue to Tips&Tweaks thread again please?
i hope that helps in someway with your questions Sukhiextreme and I agree it would be nice to have some of these powerplan options, more control over screensavers etc.
The closest other thing you can do is have your wallpapers switch about after set periods of time by following these threads/wiki page here (I haven't done this yet) :
http://boards.openpa...-automatically/
http://pandorawiki.o...llpaper_cronjob