Karmic screensaver asks for password
Tom H
tomh0665 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 5 16:38:01 UTC 2009
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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