On 2017-07-03, tony mollica <t...@threedogs.net> wrote: > My programs were also still in place but they stopped processing until I > logged back in via the light-locker screen. After that, the processing > re-started (evidenced by the printer continuing merrily on it's way) and > then I continued to log into the full desktop through the > mate-screensaver lock. From the stuff I read the intent of the > light-locker was security based so as not to allow switching into > another terminal for whatever reason if you had physical access to the > machine. I have no idea how that's done, or maybe we're not configuring > it correctly. Like I indicated earlier, the source appears to have a > facility for a light-locker.conf file but I found none on my system and > I can't read the code well enough to figure out what parameters can be > used, much less what they do. >
Apparently known light-locker insane behavior: https://askubuntu.com/questions/450443/light-locker-stops-background-activities-eg-music-playback-when-screen-is-loc -- “Yeah yeah.” --Sidney Morgenbesser's retort to a speaker who said that although there are many cases in which two negatives make a positive, he knew of no case in which two positives made a negative.
