On 11/21/2014 02:49 AM, Tormod Volden wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 9:29 PM, Jamie Zawinski wrote: >> On Nov 19, 2014, at 5:31 AM, John Goerzen wrote: >> >>> 3) When moving the mouse or pressing a key to wake up the screen and >>> unlock it, frequently the previous content of the screen will show up >>> for a few seconds before it is blanked and the logic box shown. >> That's because your machine was suspended -- CPU halted -- and what you are >> seeing on the screen when it powers back on was put there by BIOS before the >> CPU started running again. It halted the CPU with the screen >> not-yet-blanked, from xscreensaver's perspective. Likewise, there is no way >> to fix this, because Linux sucks. >> > Where I have seen this, and bug reports thereof, the reason has been > race conditions in the suspend scripts, that allow the hardware > suspend to take place before xscreensaver has blanked the screen. > Typically because someone had the idea of adding & to all commands to > speed up the suspend sequence, and no "wait". I don't see why this > cannot be fixed, Linux or not. > > Tormod >
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