Bug 28222 - Error messages visible at XScreenSaver lock screen, LXDE only Classic install 8RC
Summary: Error messages visible at XScreenSaver lock screen, LXDE only Classic install...
Status: RESOLVED OLD
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: All Linux
Priority: Normal minor
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Nicolas Salguero
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Reported: 2021-01-26 14:01 CET by Morgan Leijström
Modified: 2025-02-24 09:20 CET (History)
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Source RPM: xscreensaver-5.45-1.mga8.tainted.src.rpm
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2021-01-26 14:02 CET, Morgan Leijström
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Description Morgan Leijström 2021-01-26 14:01:01 CET
Problem: Looking bad.

Version: Second internal ISO, 64 bit, Mageia Classic Installer 8 RC

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install fresh, deselect Plasma, select LXDE (I also deselected Office, Internet clients, .. to speed up this test install to USB), no added media, no updates.
2. Boot to LXDE desktop
3. Suspend
4. Wake it up, see two ugly lines at top of login screen

I can log in as normal and everything works.
It just does not look good for new users.
Comment 1 Morgan Leijström 2021-01-26 14:02:10 CET
Created attachment 12265 [details]
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Comment 2 Lewis Smith 2021-01-28 20:07:46 CET
Thanks for the report &  screenshot/photo.

Playing with xscreensaver GUI options, and xscreensaver-command, I confirm what you say. Under LXDE, though I doubt that matters.
In certain circumstances, xscreensaver uses the entire screen background - behind the login dialogue - as a sort of terminal output window, with a message or two at the top. Depending on configuration and command parameters, this may appear during the screenlock, or after waking it up (which pops the login dialogue where appropriate).
As Morgan says, it is quite inoffensive.

Assigning to the SRPM maintainer.

Severity: normal => minor
Assignee: bugsquad => nicolas.salguero
Source RPM: (none) => xscreensaver-5.45-1.mga8.tainted.src.rpm

Comment 3 Lewis Smith 2021-02-24 08:45:19 CET
See also bug 28421. That shows (Xfce) the same sort of error message, but not the same one; and a different usage. Both bugs to try under the 'other' desktop.

See Also: (none) => https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28421

Comment 4 Lewis Smith 2021-02-24 09:07:17 CET
On M8, xscreensaver-5.45-1.mga8.tainted, SDDM, Xfce, this problem of yellow messages at the top of the screen does not show. The wake-up login screen is 'clean'.
Comment 5 Lewis Smith 2021-02-24 09:26:23 CET
Trying the fix given for bug 28421:
 $ cat ~/.Xresources
 xscreensaver.newLoginCommand: dm-tool switch-to-greeter
M8, SDDM, LXDE, the problem seems fixed. A 'clean' wake-up screen. I used:
 $ xscreensaver-command -lock

Can you try this, Morgan?
Comment 6 Nicolas Salguero 2025-02-24 09:20:01 CET
Mga8 EOL.

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


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