Solar burn-in!

[Michael Cronenworth]

Tom Horsley wrote:
> OK, this is weird. Not only are LCDs not supposed to have a
> burn-in problem, but fedora 10's "solar" background isn't
> on my screen any longer than it takes me to login after
> booting the system, yet somehow when I have a vast expanse
> of moderately dark blue background on the screen, I can seen
> faint burn-in that looks just like the loops and whorls of the
> solar background.
>
> What kind of fiendish color blue is that? :-).
>   

LCDs are very much susceptible to burn-in. Who told you otherwise?

I have a 17" Samsung that's only 3 years old that can burn-in the Gnome 
menu bar quite nicely if I don't have a screensaver activate. It goes 
away after some time (hours) of changing the screen, but it still happens.