On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 17:27:20 +0100, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > Hi > > > Distro: SID (Installed years ago, regularly updated) > Desktop: KDE > > When i leave my home and/or work computer i lock the screen with > CTRL+ALT+L. I use the "lines" screen-saver set up via kcontrol. > > The problem ist: After i log in to my computer again and don't do > anything for 70 seconds i get a black/white/grey patterned background > with a randomly size mostly big "X"-letter (that just looks like the > X.Org X). > > The happens exactly after 70 seconds @home and after a much longer time > of at least 5-10 minutes @work. (I haven't clocked that) > > To make things even more strange. When i go into kcontrol and just > Re-Apply the screensaver (Klicking on the entry, pressing cursor down > then cursor up and Apply) the effect doesn't happen again until after i > locked the screen again. > > That effect is independent of the chosen screensaver. > I have this effect for about a year now. > The effect is also independent of graphic-card/driver. > @home i have a Nvidia Geforce 7600GT with propertiary driver. > @work i have a ATI x800 with the radeon driver > But computers are dual-headed. > > Any ideas what might be my problem?
I would try to lock the screen from a [kc]onsole and hope for informative error messages if you do this repeatedly. You can run /usr/bin/kdesktop_lock --blank --forcelock to lock the screen with the "blank screen" screensaver. Somebody else on this list had a problem with kscreensaver and locking recently and it turned out that a diversion of kdesktop_lock by a buggy version of kdebluetooth was causing this. You can run dpkg-divert --list \*kdesktop\* to check for such diversions. -- Regards, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]