Description of problem: After yesterday's updates I can't switch the screen blanking off & the blanking period is too short (18 seconds without keyboard&mouse input). I tried to disable the screensaver with the xscreensaver configuration dialog and also with "xset s off" and none of the options worked. I'm using xfce. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 5.15-1.mga2 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install the latest updates 2. Start xfce session 3. Wait 20 seconds while not touching mouse&keyboard
I can confirm this.
CC: (none) => jani.valimaa
'killall xscreensaver' workarounds this annoyance.
(In reply to comment #0) > Description of problem: > 1. Install the latest updates like ? grep RPM /var/log/user.log can maybe help you
> like ? The latest RPM entries in the user.log are surprisingly from 20-JAN-2012 ... but I update everyday and everything ...
Arf (I need to found another way, one day...) :) José, funda, any ideas ?
CC: (none) => fundawang, lists.jjorge
If killall xscreensaver solves the problem, xscreensaver settings should be enough. Somewhere the default timeout was reduced ;-)
Hello José. All my configuration attempts were unfortunately ignored. When I change the configuration, then close the configuration dialog and then reopen it, all the settings are back at their previous values, but even of that the screensaver ignores them. The shortest configurable period is 1 minute, but we get the sceen blanking after 18 second! So ... there's definitely something broken. Regards, Jaromir.
CC: (none) => hhielscher
Created attachment 1507 [details] last updates before xsreensaver problem
Hi I've got the same problem. I did 'killall xscreensaver' but I don't think it's a long term solution. @Manuel The best command to have the last installed rpm is : rpm -qa --last | less using this I made the previus attachment. I hope it will help, but there was 199 of them :\
CC: (none) => grenoya
This is similar to problems I am having. I normally use kscreensaver to launch xscreensaver's glslideshow program. After a recent update, it had lost the path to my pictures. I ran xscreensaver-demo so I could reset the path, but no screensavers were listed at all and changing the images source in the advanced tab had no effect. Upon running xscreensaver-demo again, I found that any changes I had made were ignored and set back to default. Also, my normally 8K ~/.xscreensaver had been rewritten with a 1-2K file with nothing listed in the 'programs:' section. If xscreensaver-demo is run as root, all screensavers are listed and /root/.xscreensaver remains 8K with all programs in it.
CC: (none) => jdchoate
Same problem...
CC: (none) => liste
Hello :] Claire .... the 'rpm -qa --last' is nice :] I knew there must be something like that. It could help me track my updates and hopefully also those ones which made my Xfce unusable .... I quickly checked the list and the only updates looking suspicious in case of broken xscreensaver are these: libx11_6-1.4.99.1-2.mga2 lib64x11_6-1.4.99.1-2.mga2 libx11-common-1.4.99.1-2.mga2
I just locally rebuilt release r170273 of libx11 reproducing the previous version 1.4.4 and installed the result. The problem disappeared. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r203879 | tv | 2012-02-01 12:43:27 +0100 (St, 01 úno 2012) | 1 line workaround a crash in gnome-control-center (#314) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r203878 | tv | 2012-02-01 12:43:25 +0100 (St, 01 úno 2012) | 1 line SILENT: new file ./SOURCES/libx11-fix-segfault.diff ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r203736 | tv | 2012-01-31 23:57:19 +0100 (Ãt, 31 led 2012) | 1 line new release ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r203735 | tv | 2012-01-31 23:57:17 +0100 (Ãt, 31 led 2012) | 1 line SILENT: new file ./SOURCES/libX11-1.4.99.1.tar.bz2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r203734 | tv | 2012-01-31 23:57:06 +0100 (Ãt, 31 led 2012) | 1 line SILENT: delete file ./SOURCES/libX11-1.4.4.tar.bz2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r170273 | fwang | 2011-11-21 04:57:53 +0100 (Po, 21 lis 2011) | 1 line add br ------------------------------------------------------------------------ r170261 | fwang | 2011-11-21 04:51:12 +0100 (Po, 21 lis 2011) | 1 line drop .la files
I have the problem with xfce and LXDE, but not with KDE !
Well ... if I remember correctly, GNOME3 is OK too ... this might be a new feature / interface change / redesign breaking the backward compatibility ... just guessing.
Hi I changed the severity to major because it xscreensaver is actually unusable ! No matter you are moving the cursor or not, the screen becomes black every 18s (only typing on the keyboard help). And I still dont find killing xscreensaver is a solution : if it is the only solution you have to propose, why not removing it for the distribution ? Changing xscreensaver preferences does not change anything. Please note that it does not block the keyboard every 18s, just turn the screen to black. so it's even not the normal action. Claire
Severity: normal => major
I could reproduce. With xscreensaver 5.12 from MGA1 installed in Cauldron, the problem also disappears.
Status: NEW => ASSIGNEDHardware: x86_64 => AllAssignee: bugsquad => lists.jjorge
I noticed that in fact xscreensaver-demo does not list anymore it's modules with current Cauldron. And "xscreensaver -no-splash &" blanks the screen after 18s, while "xscreensaver &" alone follows users preferences for timeout. So a hack could be to change the way it is launched by LXDE, XFCE, etc. removing the -no-splash parameter.
Status: ASSIGNED => NEW
Assignee: lists.jjorge => bugsquad
CC: (none) => oliver.bgr
I've patched xfce-utils to start xscreensaver without -no-splash. Please test it.
hi your patch brings 2 improvments : - the screen is not switch 'black' anymore -> we have the screensaver :) - it(s taking into accound the delai specified by the user (18s -> 1min) :) but, there is still a problem : - it continues to switch every minutes whether you type on he keyboard or not :\ (yes, keyboard, so I may have mis-experimented before writing comment #16) but thank you the first part of the work :) Claire
(In reply to comment #19) > I've patched xfce-utils to start xscreensaver without -no-splash. Please test > it. I've done the same to lxde-common. For the keyboard problem, maybe we should end up simply not starting xscreensaver anymore till it is fixed?
CC: (none) => zen25000
CC: (none) => djmarian4uSummary: After yesterday's updates I can't switch the screen blanking off & the blanking period is too short (18 seconds) => after yesterday's updates I can't switch the screen blanking off & the blanking period is too short (18 seconds)
Today, in March 14th, the problem is always present with Xfce
CC: (none) => paiiou
Is this still valid? I'm not sure what's changed after 14th, but at least I'm not affected anymore..
It's ok for me too, but I did not see what solved it.
I made an update yesterday evening (the last date of one week ago). For me too, the problem disappeared for this morning, while before the update it was still actual.
Thanks Jani, Claire and Georges :) 3 users confirmed the bug got fixed, so closing. Please reopen if, after installing all updates, you still suffer from this issue
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => marja11Resolution: (none) => FIXED