Hi All,
Recently I have noticed some XFCE screensaving weirdness e.g.
The XFCE desktop seems to ignore my preference for xscreensaver, but
rather always starts the xfce4-screensaver instead.
Currently I think I have disabled both in my settings and yet the xfce
saver is still getting started e.g.
mjoelnir:pkg-readmes 5.02 18:11:40 % find ~/.config/xfce4 -type f -exec grep -H
saver {} \;
...
/home/robb/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml:
<property name="screensaver" type="empty">
/home/robb/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-screensaver.xml:<channel
name="xfce4-screensaver" version="1.0">
/home/robb/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-screensaver.xml:
<property name="saver" type="empty">
/home/robb/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-screensaver.xml:
<value type="string" value="screensavers-photopile"/>
/home/robb/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-screensaver.xml:
<property name="saver-activation" type="empty">
...
mjoelnir:pkg-readmes 5.02 18:17:31 % xfce4-screensaver-command -q
The screensaver is inactive
The screensaver is not inhibited
mjoelnir:pkg-readmes 5.02 18:20:44 % pstree -ws saver
-+= 00001 root /sbin/init
\--- 87710 robb /usr/local/bin/xfce4-screensaver
Has anyone else noticed anything like this?
I can kill it and start the desired xscreensaver, but that seems to have
some problems of its own e.g.
I see some strange screen colourmap lookup issues when display
images. The last time I saw something similar was on Sun hardware
that could only display, for example, 256 colours at one time ...
Sometimes the login dialog box seems not to be displayed. I think it
is still "there", a few times I have been able to login "blind", by
simply typing my password ...
This is all running a recent snapshot on a Intel NUC 8i5 system e.g. in
dmesg I see:
inteldrm0 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel Iris Plus 655" rev 0x01
drm0 at inteldrm0
inteldrm0: msi, COFFEELAKE, gen 9
Are questions regarding XFCE better suited to the misc list, or ports?
Cheers,
Robb.
