On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 08:58:24AM +0100, Laurence Tratt wrote: > Installing meta/xfce installs xfce4-screensaver. However, xfce4-screensaver > seems to have the unfortunate behaviour of messing with the user's X > screensaver settings, even when the screensaver is disabled in XFCE. This > caused me a certain amount of head-scratching when my `.xsession` loaded > `xidle` but no matter what idle times I used, another timeout was used -- > which, AFAICS, is the timeout set by xfce4-screensaver. In other words, > `xidle -timeout <n>` did not respect `n`, although `xidle` did still run its > sub-command (just at a timeout other than `n`). > > As part of this, I tried using xfce4-screensaver as a screensaver, but it > doesn't notice suspend, and after resume you can often see the full contents > of the desktop for several seconds (and, I think, you might even be able to > get a mouse click / keyboard event in there if you're quick, though I haven't > tried).
Are you suspending using a desktop button or by running zzz? Just curious. -- Antoine
