On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:06:42PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > I recently installed Debian Testing on my laptop, an HP dv6-1355dx, > which had been running Ubuntu. Once I got past the missing wireless > tools and drivers things have been pretty smooth. However, there is an > oddity in GDM regarding screen locking which I cannot seem to figure > out. > > With the default settings, using gnome-power-manager, whenever I close > the lid the computer suspends and the screen locks. However, when I > open the screen it does not give me a password box or any such thing, > but rather the screen is just black. This persists until I manually > switch to a console and back to F7 or F8, whichever is running X, and > only then will the expected password box appear. > Have you tried hitting a key or wiggling the mouse, instead of switching to a console and back?
> I have looked through the seemingly related settings but can find > nothing which seems wrong or unexpected. I have currently turned off > the screen-locking selection in the screensaver settings which keeps > things from locking up, in both ways, and so does not ask for a > password. This is okay, though I would rather like to have things > working in the optimal way. > There's always xscreensaver. You could use that instead. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100627143551.ga30...@aurora.owens.net
