[Novalug] mate-screensaver won't go away
Jon LaBadie
novalugml@jgcomp.com
Fri Jul 18 15:02:28 EDT 2014
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 02:38:44PM -0400, John Franklin wrote:
> Is the problem that you can't activate the screensaver or that you can't restore the desktop once it has activated?
>
Haven't tried to go back to mate-screensaver in a while, but it would
not activate, or at least stay activated. So I run Xscreensaver and
it works fine ... if mate-screensaver is NOT in the process list.
When both are present, mate-screensaver still does not work and
Xscreensaver generates a ton of error messages (can't grep keyboard)
and doesn't activate either.
I'm trying to figure out how to stop mate-screensaver from ever
running, but something keeps restarting the mate-screensaver process.
jl
>
> On Jul 18, 2014, at 2:17 PM, Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com> wrote:
>
> > On Fedora 20, using the mate desktop.
> > Problem was also present in Fedora 19.
> > I only have my screensaver blank the screen.
> >
> > The mate-screensaver hasn't worked right.
> > I think it sees automatic actions in my VMs
> > as "interactive" activity and thus doesn't
> > blank the screen.
> >
> > So I've been using Xscreensaver. But it doesn't
> > play well with mate-screensaver, generating
> > lots of error messages when it blanks the screen.
> >
> > Problem is something continually restarts the
> > mate-screensaver. I think it is "mate-session".
> > I've looked and tried to modify any config files
> > that mention mate-screensaver and used all the
> > gui apps to select Xscreensaver and deselect
> > mate-screensaver.
> >
> > Finally I've run a script that regularly checks
> > for mate-screensaver process and kills it if present.
> > Strictly a kludge. From the script's log, I
> > can see it mate-screensaver restarts in anywhere
> > from 10 minutes to several hours after a kill.
> >
> > Any guidance as to what to look for are appreciated.
> >
> > Jon
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Jon H. LaBadie novalugml@jgcomp.com
11226 South Shore Rd (703) 787-0688 (H)
Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C)
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