On Sunday 08 Jun 2014 23:52:40 Carsten Haitzler wrote:
> 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.
Thanks Carsten! :-)
That's what I'll do next time it happens.
--
Regards,
Mick
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