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Re: Unpredictable screensaver

dummy@example.com (chomwitt) — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 06:49:19 +0000

Thanks for the reply.

Re: Unpredictable screensaver

dummy@example.com (fsmithred) — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 14:23:17 +0000

It's xscreensaver-systemd and the manpage for it says:

The xscreensaver-systemd program is a helper program launched by xscreensaver(1) for systemd(1) or elogind(8) integration. It does two things:
* When the system is about to go to sleep (e.g., the laptop lid has just been closed) it locks the screen just before the system sleeps, by running xscreensaver-command -suspend. When the system wakes up again, it runs xscreensaver-command -deactivate to make the unlock dialog appear immediately. It does this through the org.freedesktop.login1(5) D-Bus interface.
* When another process on the system asks for the screen saver to be inhibited (e.g. because a video is playing) this program periodically runs xscreensaver-command -deactivate to keep the display un-blanked. It does this until the other program asks for it to stop, or exits. It does this through the org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver(5) D-Bus interface.

Re: Unpredictable screensaver

dummy@example.com (hevidevi) — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 12:37:45 +0000

in a terminal run

xscreensaver -demo

in a session.

then instead of xscreensaver -systemd run it as xscreensaver -no-splash in session settings or autostart or whatever starts xscreensaver. Logout and login etc etc.

Unpredictable screensaver

dummy@example.com (chomwitt) — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 09:11:25 +0000

Distro: Devuan GNU/Linux 5 (daedalus) (runit) Desktop: Xfce 4.16.0

Trying to figure out some unpredictable behavior on a fresh installation related among else to screensaver (1)
i noticed that xsceensaver -systemd running . I wonder if that could create problems when systemd is not installed.

(1)
https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=66137#p66137