On 06/25/2017 05:18 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote: > Ralph Katz wrote: > >> Yes! apt history shows light-locker was installed by the dist-upgrade. >> I've just purged xscreensaver and can confirm that the time-out errors >> in syslog occur on resume from screen blanking. > > Did you also kill the xscreensaver daemon? You might have been getting > odd behavior due to xscreensaver and light-locker/lightdm fighting over > the display.
Yes, apt-get purge killed the daemon as well. > I don't know enough about X to know whether those timeout errors are > important. When I've used light-locker, the display would typically > blank briefly before showing the lightdm screen. (That's how > light-locker works: it starts a lightdm instance, which you "log in" to > in order to unlock the session.) Yes, but resuming from blank causes the kernel errors in syslog. > >> Other than pushing out the screen lock time which I've done in xfce >> settings, or disabling the lock, what do you suggest? light-locker is a >> "depends" of task-xfce-desktop so not removable. > > If light-locker running by itself still isn't behaving properly, you > could disable the daemon via the Xfce session control panel. Untick the > box in the list of startup applications, and make sure it's not listed > in the list of currently running applications. > > That would leave you without a screen lock, but I suppose you could > reinstall xscreensaver. While purging xscreensaver removed 2 or 3 packages, installing now would bring in a host of packages, for whatever reason. I don't need a screensaver as much as I need the lock. Ralph
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