Bug 20407

Summary:	Double locking in Xfce4 if xscreensaver is installed
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Chris B <shybluenight>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Jani Välimaa <jani.valimaa>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal	CC:	nicolas.salguero
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Source RPM:	task-xfce-4.12-5.mga6	CVE:
Status comment:

Description Chris B 2017-03-06 13:13:58 CET

I'd like to suggest to not install the package xscreensaver by default on Xfce4.
It leads to a double lock, and you are asked twice to unlock it. As noticed by the QA-team testing
the Xfce live isos, sta2.

Xfce's own Power Manager is enough.

Affected packages:

- task-xfce
- task-xfce-minimal
(- task-xfce-plugins, not sure)
- xfce4-settings

Rémi Verschelde 2017-03-06 13:15:42 CET

Assignee: bugsquad => jani.valimaa

Comment 1 Jani Välimaa 2017-03-06 15:03:27 CET

But then there's no screensaver available, only display blanking.

What if we check xscreensaver and xcfe4-powermanager settings to find out a good combination so that both doesn't lock screen and ask pwd?

Comment 2 Chris B 2017-03-06 15:26:37 CET

Yes, I know. This would be my personal choice, and I checked other xfce distros, they don't install xscreensaver by default.

If you want to keep xscreensaver: change it to not ask for the password?

But I leave it to you to make a sensible choice. You are more experienced than me.

Comment 3 Nicolas Salguero 2017-03-07 09:43:24 CET

(In reply to Chris B from comment #2)
> If you want to keep xscreensaver: change it to not ask for the password?

xscreensaver is also the default screen saver of LXDE and there is no integrated mechanism in LXDE to automatically lock the screen so the current configuration of xscreensaver should not be changed if we do not want to introduce a regression in LXDE.

CC: (none) => nicolas.salguero

Jani Välimaa 2017-03-11 17:29:06 CET

Summary: Don't install xscreensaver by default on Xfce4 => Double locking in Xfce4 if xscreensaver is installed

Comment 4 Jani Välimaa 2017-03-11 17:51:12 CET

The issue should be fixed with mageia-xfce-config-4.120.6.3-2.mga6.

Closing as FIXED, feel free to reopen if needed.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED