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What sort of idiot...
... thinks that it's a good idea to have the *screen saver* active during an install process?
I'm installing the latest Kubuntu on a box. And after selecting the partitions it displays the country & time zone choices. But since it was still formatting one of them,it wouldn't let me select anything.
Ok, so I go off to do something else while it's doing that. I come back to a blank screen. The screen saver has engaged. So I try to get the display back. Moving the mouse doesn't do it. Hitting various harmless keys (shift, etc doesn't. In desperation, I try space and then enter.
Yeah, I know. But I was getting really frustrated.
When the screen finally comes back, I seem to have "selected" the wrong time zone (at least it got the United states).
Can't be sure, because the mouse is practically useless (the system is a bit low on RAM, but since I'm mainly messing with it because it has SATA and I need to see if I can recover data from an SATA drive that Windoze borked, I figured that didn't matter much).
But still, having a screen saver active during an OS install is *really* stupid. And having the system so loaded that it take *minutes* to respond to attempts to get the display back? No. Just no.
I consider this a fairly major case of not thinking things thru.
I'm installing the latest Kubuntu on a box. And after selecting the partitions it displays the country & time zone choices. But since it was still formatting one of them,it wouldn't let me select anything.
Ok, so I go off to do something else while it's doing that. I come back to a blank screen. The screen saver has engaged. So I try to get the display back. Moving the mouse doesn't do it. Hitting various harmless keys (shift, etc doesn't. In desperation, I try space and then enter.
Yeah, I know. But I was getting really frustrated.
When the screen finally comes back, I seem to have "selected" the wrong time zone (at least it got the United states).
Can't be sure, because the mouse is practically useless (the system is a bit low on RAM, but since I'm mainly messing with it because it has SATA and I need to see if I can recover data from an SATA drive that Windoze borked, I figured that didn't matter much).
But still, having a screen saver active during an OS install is *really* stupid. And having the system so loaded that it take *minutes* to respond to attempts to get the display back? No. Just no.
I consider this a fairly major case of not thinking things thru.