[ubuntu-studio-devel] xfce4-screensaver

[Janne Jokitalo]

On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 03:43:09PM -0800, Erich Eickmeyer wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Sean Davis (bluesabre) did an amazing job and ported mate-screensaver to
> xfce4-screensaver. The motivation, as I understand it, is because
> light-locker is largely unmaintained and causes a race condition when
> resuming from sleep due to the vt change (or something like that, we don't
> need to get too technical on this).
> 
> With that, light-locker and xscreensaver are being largely depricated by the
> Xubuntu team (who can correct me if I'm wrong... well, anybody can correct
> me) in favor of xfce4-screensaver. I think this change, if it needs to
> happen in our seeds, needs to happen.

It definitely needs to happen. More and more laptops especially are being
shipped with nVidia graphics cards (okay, I don't have real data on this, but
the last three I've randomly purchased have this) and they seem to struggle
really bad with light-locker.

> If you want to test it first, that's good practice. That said, I can say
> from personal experience that I have experienced the light-locker race
> condition myself, and it's definitely not a good bug to have.

You're right, it's really bad to have the GUI restarted after resume from sleep.
Kind of defeats the purpose.

> With that, I want to say that this change in the seed, if necessary, isn't
> as high of a priority, but it would bring some good bug fixes to our default
> Xfce desktop.

I concur whole-heartedly. I will see if I have time to test it, but seeing that
every time I install a new environment, the first thing I do is swap
light-locker for xscreensaver. Can't be much worse than that.

-- 
Janne (astraljava) Jokitalo

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