Fwd: Screensaver should lock screen BEFORE entering sleep.

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Sat Feb 25 17:02:37 GMT 2006


On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 09:24:32AM -0500, pww wrote:

> Current behavior is: When resuming from sleep/hibernate (suspend to
> RAM/disk), there is a brief delay before the screensaver locks the
> screen and keyboard.

Not as of Thursday or so.

> This is because the ACPI scripts invoke the screensaver in the resume
> scripts, not in the sleep or hibernate scripts. 

No, that's not accurate. The problem is that xscreensaver-command 
returns before the screen is actually locked. The scripts have no way of 
knowing that. If you use gnome-power-manager and gnome-screensaver, then 
things should work correctly.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org



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