I'm almost certain that an NT based OS won't start a screen saver once another is already running. Under Win98, this would happen, although it wouldn't be exponential as the system invokes the saver, not the saver itself.
I don't like the idea of the GL graphics driver silently dumping the screen saver messages and would prefer it to be, at the very least, optional. There may be times that you'd want a graphical app to be sitting in the background.
Ideally, there'd be built in commands to control this behaviour for GL *and* DX, possibly with the default being to suppress any screen saver and/or power saving.
I haven't got a clue what happens under Linux and OSX. :o/
I don't like the idea of the GL graphics driver silently dumping the screen saver messages and would prefer it to be, at the very least, optional. There may be times that you'd want a graphical app to be sitting in the background.
Ideally, there'd be built in commands to control this behaviour for GL *and* DX, possibly with the default being to suppress any screen saver and/or power saving.
I haven't got a clue what happens under Linux and OSX. :o/