On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 11:50:21 +0100 Mick <[email protected]> said:
> I have noticed the following strange behaviour of the screen blanking > function, with the default settings: > > If I switch over to a VT with Ctrl+Alt+F1 from an enlightenment session and > after a while I switch back to it the screen fades away and all I can see is > the white mouse arrow. The backlight stays on. I have not found a way to > get out of this blanking mode, moving the mouse, going back to VT or anything > else does not make the desktop visible again. > > The only solution is to wait for 5 minutes before the backlight is switched > off after which enlightenment will behave as normal - moving the mouse will > wake up the screen and everything becomes visible again. > > I have not noticed this on other machines, but perhaps I haven't waited long > enough? > > Is this how it is supposed to work? this is a rare thing, but i noticed it myself maybe 4 or 5 months ago and looked. it was a weird thing. no blank event came to e while u were switched away, only when you switched back, e got a blank event IMMEDIATELY followed by an unblank event. like right next to each other in the event stream. kind of silly, but there it was and this cause the problem - the animation didn't reverse if immediately cancelled. i put in a fix for it in git several months ago, so it should already be fixed there (i tested it and it worked). there IS a workaround - just restart e (ctrl+alt+end) so it's easy to get out of this mode. -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
