On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 09:28:23 -0800 Mike Kupfer <kup...@rawbw.com> wrote:
> Celejar wrote: > > > I'm running Debian Sid with XFCE. Xscreensaver used to work, but a > > number of months ago, it broke badly: it now fails to fails to activate > > via the "Preview" button or (more importantly) via the "Blank after" > > setting. > > Thank you for bringing this up. I just noticed yesterday that > XScreensaver was not working with Xfce in my Bookworm VM, but I was too > busy to look into it. I could start it by hand after logging in, but > there was an autostart entry for it, so I expected it to already be > running. > > Have you verified that the daemon is running? (Does "pgrep > xscreensaver" produce anything?) It's running: ~$ ps ax | grep screensaver 2727 ? S 0:07 xscreensaver -no-splash 2813 ? S 0:00 xscreensaver-systemd 31876 pts/6 S+ 0:00 grep screensaver > Prompted by your email, I added an Xfce autostart command to run > xscreensaver in verbose mode and with logging enabled. The log says > > xscreensaver: 09:09:49: running in process 4072 > xscreensaver: 09:09:49: "cinnamon-screensaver" is already running on > display :0.0 (window 0x1200001) > > By the time I could look at the log file, though, cinnamon-screensaver > was no longer running. > > The xscreensaver man page does say something about uninstalling other > screensavers. It's in the section "INSTALLING XSCREENSAVER ON GNOME OR > UNITY", but maybe it applies to other DEs? It does seem odd that > cinnamon-screensaver would get started in Xfce. Maybe this is some No cinnamon-screensaver here, as per the output shown above. > side-effect related to using systemd to start screensavers? > > Anyway, if you don't have any other screensavers installed in your VM, > try enabling logging and see if it tells you anything interesting. Thanks for the suggestion. The logs show regular deactivate events like the following every 20 seconds: ClientMessage DEACTIVATE: already inactive, resetting activity time I saw this: https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#no-blank I guess I have to figure out what application is sending these messages? Firefox? I do tend to keep a lot of tabs open. Anyway, I've updated the bug log with this information: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1014782#77 Thank you. -- Celejar
