Karmic screensaver asks for password

[Tom H]

Laura Conrad wrote:

>> Tom H writes:

> Laura Conrad wrote:

>>> Since I upgraded my laptop to 9.10 a couple of days ago, the
>>> screensaver keeps asking for my password when I come back. I've tried
>>> to find where to tell it not to do that.  I'm sure it used to be on
>>> one of the xscreensaver configuration screens, but I can't find it
>>> now.

>> System - Preferences - Screensaver
>> if you are using the default screen saver

> I tried that. There are two screensavers there, but both of them are
> xscreensaver, and I can't find that option.

> It might not be the default, although I thought I'd done a full
> reinstall since the last time I had xscreensaver problems and not
> fiddled with the defaults.  In any case, the screensaver certainly
> wasn't asking for my password on 9.04.

I had added "if you are using the default screen saver" because your
initial post mentioned xscreensaver and I was unsure whether that is
the default.

I have just done a search and gnome-screensaver is installed on my
un-customized box and xscreensaver is not.

I do not understand your "There are two screensavers there, but both
of them are xscreensaver" but perhaps the solution below will work.

Since you are running xscreensaver, you should launch
xscreensaver-demo and configure it there. This is from the man page of
xscreensaver:

...
        Note that xscreensaver has a client-server model: the xscreensaver pro-
        gram is a daemon that runs in the background; it is controlled  by  the
        foreground xscreensaver-demo(1) and xscreensaver-command(1) programs.

CONFIGURATION
        The easiest way to configure xscreensaver is to simply run the xscreen-
        saver-demo(1) program, and change the settings through  the  GUI.  The
        rest  of  this  manual page describes lower level ways of changing set-
        tings.
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