On 11/21/2014 02:28 PM, Jamie Zawinski wrote: > On Nov 21, 2014, at 5:36 AM, John Goerzen <jgoer...@complete.org> wrote: > >> I am quite sure it's not just that the mouse is getting bumped, because >> I have observed that the monitor will not enter power-saving mode at all >> for days, and then after a reboot, it will work again. > Huh. Well, run it with -log for a few days and see what shows up. You will > see a line when xscreensaver notices that the monitor has powered down. If it > thinks it's still powered down, it won't launch hacks. The only time > xscreensaver explicitly powers on the monitor is when unblanking the screen > or displaying the unlock dialog. And even in those situations, it should time > out and power off again eventually. > > Possibly some other app is messing with your DPMS settings, or turning the > monitor back on. The "notifications" thing you're seeing suggests that that > might be happening. I'm trying to run it under -log with -verbose, but it's complicated by two things:
1) no date stamps with the timestamps (sometimes these things only manifest themselves after awhile) 2) it doesn't seem to be calling fflush() on the log file after each write, so tailing it doesn't necessarily show the most current information. and a third thing, which is that it is highly intermittent. I'll try to grab some time to investigate further while it's exhibiting the issue as well. Thanks, John > >> Thanks for xscreensaver (and Netscape, and XEmace, while I'm at it.) > Thanks, glad you like it! > > -- > Jamie Zawinski http://www.jwz.org/ http://www.dnalounge.com/ > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
