FS#50872 - [xscreensaver] xscreensaver stopped working
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Opened by David Rosenstrauch (darose) - Thursday, 22 September 2016, 17:20 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Tuesday, 06 March 2018, 16:38 GMT
Opened by David Rosenstrauch (darose) - Thursday, 22 September 2016, 17:20 GMT
Last edited by Doug Newgard (Scimmia) - Tuesday, 06 March 2018, 16:38 GMT
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Details
I don't know quite what has triggered this - or even if this
bug is necessarily in the xscreensaver code - but my screen
saver has stopped engaging as of about a week ago.
I haven't made changes to the xscreensaver settings in a long time. But I checked them again and they all look correct. Symptoms: * Screen saver is supposed to kick in after 1 minute of idle time, but it's not happening. * I can still invoke the screensaver manually (e.g., using xflock4). * When I do invoke the screensaver manually, after maybe 30 seconds to 1 minute, the xscreensaver login dialog pops up, as if I had pressed a key or moved the mouse. (Which I hadn't.) * I suspected perhaps that there's some sort of hardware error on my machine (e.g., stuck keyboard key). But when I leave a console window idle running "xev", it doesn't display any new keyboard or mouse events while I'm idle. * I'm using XFCE with xscreensaver. I checked to make sure that XFCE is launching the xscreensaver daemon in the background after I log in, and it is. (xscreensaver -no-splash) * I tried using "watch -n1 xprintidle" to see if my idle time was somehow getting reset, but it doesn't look like it. I'm not sure what else to check to debug this!?! But this is a big problem, as it my laptop is not being secured every time I walk away from it. |
This task depends upon
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12857