Screensaver in KDE (Plasma5)

2023-08-10 Thread Hans
Hi folks, it would be nice if someone could send me the correct settings of libs and binaries, which are related for the screensaver in plasma5. Also I would like to know, if the user hast to be member in a special group related to the screensaver. The problem here is, that I can not

Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

2021-10-21 Thread Jeff
Hi Thomas, On 19/10/2021 22:31, Thomas Schmitt wrote: Seems to be considered a firmware bug of the keyboard which might become repairable in the future: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=267365 Oh, yes. Even better. Worked a treat. Thanks again Jeff OpenPGP_signature Descripti

Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

2021-10-19 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, Jeff wrote: > KeyPress event, [...] > keycode 248 Seems to be considered a firmware bug of the keyboard which might become repairable in the future: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=267365 > https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=105326 Such old wisdom will probably

Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

2021-10-19 Thread Jeff
Hi Thomas, Thanks for your suggestion. On 17/10/2021 13:53, Thomas Schmitt wrote: If your suspicion is right, xev should show lots of such Key* events as soon as its receiver window gets the focus, without you pressing any key at the keyboard. In that case, end xev and look at the messages on t

Re: Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

2021-10-17 Thread Thomas Schmitt
Hi, due to the lack of other proposals i now come up with something ancient. If you are still running the X Window System, then there should be a program named xev. Start it in a dedicated terminal window which will get its verbous text output. Redirect a copy of that output to a file: xev | te

Keyboard prevents screensaver & scrolling terminal window

2021-10-15 Thread Jeff
Hallo! I picked up a second-hand Cherry MX 3 keyboard some time ago. The feel is very good, but when it is plugged in, I can no longer scroll the active terminal window, and the screensaver no longer activates. I can scroll inactive terminal windows, and everything returns to normal if I

Re: A simple screensaver that works - any improvement possible?

2021-03-29 Thread David
On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 at 03:24, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > Link: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?[...] > Not posting the code here, as it would be a case of repitition. Hi, as a user of this mailing list for many years, I want to say ... Please stop doing this. Or (devils advocate), consid

Re: A simple screensaver that works - any improvement possible?

2021-03-28 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Mar 28, 2021 at 11:29:55AM +0530, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > I created a folder and in it the ssvr script and another, activate.sh. > Within the latter, the line: ./ssvr.sh ssvr.sh > > Program running, but screensaving not initiated after inactivity. > Codeline: > [code] xautolock -time 1 -loc

Re: A simple screensaver that works - any improvement possible?

2021-03-28 Thread Susmita/Rajib
On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 16:47:48 +, Darac Marjal wrote: > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: A simple screensaver that works - any improvement > possible? > From: Darac Marjal > Date: Sat, 27 Mar 2021 16:47:48 + > Message-id: <[🔎] a6

Re: A simple screensaver that works - any improvement possible?

2021-03-27 Thread Susmita/Rajib
On 27/03/2021, Susmita/Rajib wrote: [...] > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=149128 > Not posting the code here, as it would be a case of repitition(sic). [...] Apologise for the earlier typo. Had contacted Prof. Liu, the maintainer of xautolock. He informed: [quote]... Please have a

Re: A simple screensaver that works - any improvement possible?

2021-03-27 Thread Dan Ritter
Susmita/Rajib wrote: > The working code, here: > [?]invoke a screensaver and xset through script > Link: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=149128 > Not posting the code here, as it would be a case of repitition. If you are interested in this as a security devi

Re: A simple screensaver that works - any improvement possible?

2021-03-27 Thread Darac Marjal
On 27/03/2021 16:06, Susmita/Rajib wrote: > The working code, here: > [?]invoke a screensaver and xset through script > Link: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=149128 > Not posting the code here, as it would be a case of repitition. > Best. > Rajib > OK. Y

A simple screensaver that works - any improvement possible?

2021-03-27 Thread Susmita/Rajib
The working code, here: [?]invoke a screensaver and xset through script Link: http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=149128 Not posting the code here, as it would be a case of repitition. Best. Rajib

Re: Re: instable X after upgrade to buster - X? firefox? liberoffice? screensaver? lxde?

2019-12-21 Thread Wolfgang Rosner
Have it running for some days now without screensaver gimmick. Appears to be quite stable now. --

Re: instable X after upgrade to buster - X? firefox? liberoffice? screensaver? lxde?

2019-12-20 Thread Hans
Am Freitag, 20. Dezember 2019, 17:58:24 CET schrieb didier.gau...@gmail.com: Got the same here. On my EEEPC with graphicscard I945 (Intel), plasma is very instable, LXDE is running smoother, but all in all X has gotten more instable as before. And there are no obsolete package installed nor old

Re: Re: instable X after upgrade to buster - X? firefox? liberoffice? screensaver? lxde?

2019-12-20 Thread didier . gaumet
Le vendredi 20 décembre 2019 15:40:05 UTC+1, Wolfgang Rosner a écrit : [...] Perhaps you still have in your installed Debian some obsolete packages and non installed recommended packages? (I have had this in the past) The easiest way is probably aptitude in interactive mode: there is a special

Re: Re: instable X after upgrade to buster - X? firefox? liberoffice? screensaver? lxde?

2019-12-20 Thread Wolfgang Rosner
> You told us that you upgraded to Buster by accident: yes what I did: - btrfs subvol snap - apt-get upgrade - cat /etc/debian_version 10.2 - "OOPS" - google "debian versions" - btrfs subvol snap - apt-get dist-upgrade - Wolfgang

Re: Re: instable X after upgrade to buster - X? firefox? liberoffice? screensaver? lxde?

2019-12-20 Thread Wolfgang Rosner
> You told us that you upgraded to Buster by accident: yes what I did: - btrfs subvol snap - apt-get upgrade - cat /etc/debian_version 10.2 - "OOPS" - google "debian versions" - btrfs subvol snap - apt-get dist-upgrade - btw: does this message get sorted to the correct

Re: instable X after upgrade to buster - X? firefox? liberoffice? screensaver? lxde?

2019-12-17 Thread didier . gaumet
The Debian bug you mention is related to xscreensaver 5.36 in Stretch, I don't know if it is still relevant for xscreensaver 5.42 in Buster. You told us that you upgraded to Buster by accident: did you apt dist-upgrade after apt upgrade?

Re: instable X after upgrade to buster - X? firefox? liberoffice? screensaver? lxde?

2019-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Rosner
Is xscreensaver the culprit? Bugs reported here are similiar, but not exact the same https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=891578 https://dirkmittler.homeip.net/blog/archives/5226 deinstalled xscreensaver, just resumed from black screen and had neither slow firefox nor x-crashes afte

instable X after upgrade to buster - X? firefox? liberoffice? screensaver? lxde?

2019-12-17 Thread Wolfgang Rosner
Hello, together, after trapped into upgrade from stretch to buster, I get (1) x server crashes after closing multiple libreOffice windows (2) inacceptable response times after resuming from screen saver Details for (1) After crash, libreOffice r

Re: Screensaver issues after distro upgrade (SOLVED)

2019-09-11 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 9/11/2019 7:01 PM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > Well, I noticed that issue after I recently upgraded to Stretch, but not > had it in Jessie. Whatever. Having in mind that Stretch is oldstable for > a while, and you had the issue in Buster, it seems that the issue goes > through the versions intact :

Re: Screensaver issues after distro upgrade

2019-09-11 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 9/11/19 12:12 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote: I saw the same problem when I tried lightlocker after upgrading to XFCE 4.14, so I went back to good old xscreensaver. Ugly bitmaps fonts and no theming, but secure and reliable. There is a new locker in XFCE, but there have been reports of segf

Re: Screensaver issues after distro upgrade (SOLVED)

2019-09-11 Thread Miroslav Skoric
On 9/10/19 8:11 PM, Christopher David Howie wrote: On 9/10/19 4:30 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: After upgrading the old laptop from Jessie to Stretch, I noticed that the screensaver in Mate environment does not work for me as before. For example, when the screen goes black after some time of

Re: Screensaver issues after distro upgrade

2019-09-10 Thread Ben Caradoc-Davies
On 11/09/2019 06:11, Christopher David Howie wrote: On 9/10/19 4:30 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: After upgrading the old laptop from Jessie to Stretch, I noticed that the screensaver in Mate environment does not work for me as before. For example, when the screen goes black after some time of

Re: Screensaver issues after distro upgrade

2019-09-10 Thread Christopher David Howie
On 9/10/19 4:30 AM, Miroslav Skoric wrote: > After upgrading the old laptop from Jessie to Stretch, I noticed that > the screensaver in Mate environment does not work for me as before. For > example, when the screen goes black after some time of inactivity, for > returning back it i

Screensaver issues after distro upgrade

2019-09-10 Thread Miroslav Skoric
Hello, After upgrading the old laptop from Jessie to Stretch, I noticed that the screensaver in Mate environment does not work for me as before. For example, when the screen goes black after some time of inactivity, for returning back it is not enough just to touch the touchpad or press any

Re: Disable and Enable Screensaver via Bash Script

2018-10-17 Thread to...@tuxteam.de
On Wed, Oct 17, 2018 at 06:43:38PM +, Matthew Crews wrote: [...] > Makes sense to me. So I would probably need to use a FOR or WHILE loop of > some kind to periodically check if my application is running. Would need to > play around with it. > > Something else it looks like I could do is:

Re: Disable and Enable Screensaver via Bash Script

2018-10-17 Thread Matthew Crews
y screen saver. Caffeine indicator > > doesn't work with XFCE as far as I've been able to tell, so if I want to > > temporarily disable the screensaver I need to do so manually, and > > re-enable it manually. > > I'm wondering, is there a way to perform this featur

Re: Disable and Enable Screensaver via Bash Script

2018-10-16 Thread Étienne Mollier
). I presently use Xscreensaver for my screen saver. >>> Caffeine indicator doesn't work with XFCE as far as I've >>> been able to tell, so if I want to temporarily disable the >>> screensaver I need to do so manually, and re-enable it >>> manually. >&

Re: Disable and Enable Screensaver via Bash Script

2018-10-16 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
doesn't work with XFCE as far as I've been able to tell, so if I want to >> temporarily disable the screensaver I need to do so manually, and >> re-enable it manually. >> >> I'm wondering, is there a way to perform this feature with a bash >> script?

Re: Disable and Enable Screensaver via Bash Script

2018-10-16 Thread tomas
to tell, so if I want to > temporarily disable the screensaver I need to do so manually, and > re-enable it manually. > > I'm wondering, is there a way to perform this feature with a bash > script? What I'm looking for is a bash script that does the following, > in se

Disable and Enable Screensaver via Bash Script

2018-10-15 Thread Matthew Crews
Hi all, Currently I am running Stretch with XFCE (window manager is XFWM4). I presently use Xscreensaver for my screen saver. Caffeine indicator doesn't work with XFCE as far as I've been able to tell, so if I want to temporarily disable the screensaver I need to do so manually, and re

Re: screensaver and sundries questions

2018-09-25 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/24/18, o1bigtenor wrote: > Greetings > > I have been using xscreensaver for quite some time and found it to be > quite useful (on debian 10 using lxde). Present thinking seems to be > that a screen locker must be included. As I have my equipment in a > home office, with almost no access to ot

screensaver and sundries questions

2018-09-24 Thread o1bigtenor
Greetings I have been using xscreensaver for quite some time and found it to be quite useful (on debian 10 using lxde). Present thinking seems to be that a screen locker must be included. As I have my equipment in a home office, with almost no access to others I prefer to not have to use a passwor

Re: Screensaver/lock xfce debian

2017-11-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Nov 2017 at 13:59:34 (+0100), Basti wrote: > Hello people, > I have a problem with the screensaver/lock screen function in debian. > The problem is, when I lock the screen (hotkey or over the menu), then > the system stops every process and wifi connection (by deactivatin

Screensaver/lock xfce debian

2017-11-29 Thread Basti
Hello people, I have a problem with the screensaver/lock screen function in debian. The problem is, when I lock the screen (hotkey or over the menu), then the system stops every process and wifi connection (by deactivating the wifi). This is quite annoying, because I want to lock the screen for

Re: BOINC Screensaver

2017-09-19 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/19/17, Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă wrote: > On 7-09-2017, at 10h 24'04", Mike Stroud wrote about "BOINC Screensaver" >> I've just installed the BOINC screensaver as well as the BOINC Manager >> using >> Synaptec, and I've upgraded them from t

Re: BOINC Screensaver

2017-09-19 Thread Ionel Mugurel Ciobîcă
On 7-09-2017, at 10h 24'04", Mike Stroud wrote about "BOINC Screensaver" > I've just installed the BOINC screensaver as well as the BOINC Manager using > Synaptec, and I've upgraded them from the stretch-backports repo. I've got > the BOINC Manager runn

BOINC Screensaver

2017-09-07 Thread Mike Stroud
I've just installed the BOINC screensaver as well as the BOINC Manager using Synaptec, and I've upgraded them from the stretch-backports repo. I've got the BOINC Manager running SETI@home. I installed xscreensaver, and edited the .xscreensaver file in my home directory t

Re: How to Run a Command on Screensaver Activation, Only After User Interaction that Session?

2017-05-04 Thread David Wright
On Thu 04 May 2017 at 08:29:35 (-0500), Kent West wrote: > I thought about that at the time, but figure any button press would also > entail a slight bit of mouse movement in 99.99% of the cases, but since > you've done the work for me in finding the event number (thanks! ;-) ), > I've now added i

Re: How to Run a Command on Screensaver Activation, Only After User Interaction that Session?

2017-05-04 Thread Kent West
On Thu, May 4, 2017 at 2:27 AM, Felix Dietrich wrote: > Kent West writes: > > > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Felix Dietrich > > wrote: > > > > Kent West writes: > > > > What I needed (and have since solved - below) was help working out the > > syntax of determining human interaction wi

Re: How to Run a Command on Screensaver Activation, Only After User Interaction that Session?

2017-05-04 Thread Felix Dietrich
Kent West writes: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 9:27 PM, Felix Dietrich > wrote: > > Kent West writes: > > What I needed (and have since solved - below) was help working out the > syntax of determining human interaction with X. > > You may also want to consider that a user probably should n

Re: How to Run a Command on Screensaver Activation, Only After User Interaction that Session?

2017-04-29 Thread Kent West
tivity, but only after the computer has been used at > > least once since the last start of X (otherwise it'll just be in a > > slow loop of restarting X). > > > > - boot into X > > - sit idly for 20 minutes, 2 hours, 3 days, whatever, screensaver &

Re: How to Run a Command on Screensaver Activation, Only After User Interaction that Session?

2017-04-27 Thread Felix Dietrich
ust be in a > slow loop of restarting X). > > - boot into X > - sit idly for 20 minutes, 2 hours, 3 days, whatever, screensaver > running, until a guest comes up and uses the kiosk Do you mean the display manager is running waiting for a user to log in, possibl

Re: How to Run a Command on Screensaver Activation, Only After User Interaction that Session?

2017-04-27 Thread Kent West
ast start of X (otherwise it'll just be in a slow loop of restarting > X). > > In other words, something like: > > - boot into X > - sit idly for 20 minutes, 2 hours, 3 days, whatever, screensaver running, > until a guest comes up and uses the kiosk > - The guest walks a

How to Run a Command on Screensaver Activation, Only After User Interaction that Session?

2017-04-26 Thread Kent West
In other words, something like: - boot into X - sit idly for 20 minutes, 2 hours, 3 days, whatever, screensaver running, until a guest comes up and uses the kiosk - The guest walks away from the kiosk - 2 minutes later the screensaver kicks in, and X restarts (It might also be nice to have a 15-se

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-05-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Lisi Reisz wrote: > Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > > Frederic Marchal wrote: > > > Moreover, it makes sense to have a screen saver to turn the display and > > > backlight off. It saves a lot of energy on a laptop. > > > > Not to mention that some, who make grunting noises in the backwoods, are > > still

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-05-02 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Wednesday 29 April 2015 18:49:38 Renaud OLGIATI wrote: > On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:30:19 +0200 > > Frederic Marchal wrote: > > Moreover, it makes sense to have a screen saver to turn the display and > > backlight off. It saves a lot of energy on a laptop. > > Not to mention that some, who make gr

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-30 Thread Frédéric Marchal
2015-04-30 3:26 GMT+02:00 Gary Roach : > On 04/29/2015 10:30 AM, Frederic Marchal wrote: >> >> On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: >>> >>> On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello, >>> This doesn't answer you question exactly but I would like to point ou

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/29/2015 10:30 AM, Frederic Marchal wrote: On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting Sven Hartge (s...@svenhartge.de): > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Gary Roach wrote: > > >> I bow to your experience but, for the life of me, I can't see how > >> this could happen with the physics that is involved. I suppose that > >> the liquid crystal material could deteriorate with time but I

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Sven Hartge
Bob Proulx wrote: > Gary Roach wrote: >> I bow to your experience but, for the life of me, I can't see how >> this could happen with the physics that is involved. I suppose that >> the liquid crystal material could deteriorate with time but I thought >> that the stuff was pretty indestructible.

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Bob Proulx
Gary Roach wrote: > I bow to your experience but, for the life of me, I can't see how this > could happen with the physics that is involved. I suppose that the > liquid crystal material could deteriorate with time but I thought that > the stuff was pretty indestructible. It doesn't make sense to m

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Sven Hartge
e the places where static elements (browser buttons, window borders, etc.) have been. But by using the lcdscrub screensaver from the xscreensaver package every night the "burn marks" were easily remediated. This screensaver displays special patters, for example horizontal black and whit

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/29/2015 10:30 AM, Frederic Marchal wrote: On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Ron
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015 19:30:19 +0200 Frederic Marchal wrote: > Moreover, it makes sense to have a screen saver to turn the display and > backlight off. It saves a lot of energy on a laptop. Not to mention that some, who make grunting noises in the backwoods, are still using CRT monitors... Che

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Frederic Marchal
On Wednesday 29 April 2015 09:08:41 Gary Roach wrote: > On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything > > > > is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE. > > > > I would like to lock

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-29 Thread Gary Roach
On 04/28/2015 05:27 AM, Francesco Ariis wrote: Hello, I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE. I would like to lock the screen when the lid of my laptop is closed (by running xscreensaver, which I cu

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-28 Thread Francesco Ariis
ried it myself) listen to those events and invoke the the > screensaver then. > > It's part of Jessie: > https://packages.debian.org/jessie/xss-lock > > Hope that helps. Hey Christian, thanks for the help! Slapping xss-lock -- xscreensaver-command -activate &

Re: Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-28 Thread Christian Seiler
says: please lock your screen. There's something called xss-lock that can allegedly (haven't tried it myself) listen to those events and invoke the the screensaver then. It's part of Jessie: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/xss-lock Hope that helps. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Jessie and screensaver on lid-close

2015-04-28 Thread Francesco Ariis
Hello, I recently upgraded my laptop from wheezy to jessie, and everything is going smoothly. I run a very simple system, with X but no DE. I would like to lock the screen when the lid of my laptop is closed (by running xscreensaver, which I currently have installed, if possible, but any other

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-10-10 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/27/2014 08:31 PM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 06:46:49PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: On 09/27/2014 05:34 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 9/27/14, softwatt wrote: I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in the wrong language. If you use multiple l

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-10-08 Thread lee
softwatt writes: > Perhaps we should suggest an xscreensaver update, where the capslock > status and the current language are shown next to the password input. > This should be trivial to implement. +NumLock, and correct handling of NumLock A password starting with a tilde can yield strange res

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-10-08 Thread lee
Steve Litt writes: > with lxlock, and after switching to i3lock with the -i option, I found > it a great locker for *any* wm/de. Just be careful with outdated versions of i3lock when NumLock comes into play. -- Hallowed are the Debians! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-29 Thread Stefan Monnier
softwatt writes: > I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in > the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing > ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may need to do > it multiple times if you have multiple languages. > If that is no

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-28 Thread softwatt
On 09/28/2014 03:31 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 06:46:49PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: >> Great Minds! The only thing the user sees is black dots. :) Ric > You don't even get to see those AFAIR. Wrong. One does see black dots, see attachment. signature.asc Description: OpenP

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-28 Thread softwatt
On 09/28/2014 01:46 AM, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/27/2014 05:34 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: >> On 9/27/14, softwatt wrote: >>> I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in >>> the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing >>> ALT+SHIFT (The default languag

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Steve Litt
saver and this one has recently > decided that it can't accept any passwords any more. > > I tried it with other users (displaying their lock on my screen via an > "ssh -X" session), same result (it complains of failed authentication > and comes back asking for another

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Chris Bannister
longed session of cursing like a sailor, I noticed the > little caps-lock LED was lit. I am not a master typist by a long shot! :) > Ric It's only unlocking the screensaver, all others are OK. That was how I read it. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hatin

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 06:46:49PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > On 09/27/2014 05:34 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >On 9/27/14, softwatt wrote: > >>I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in > >>the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing > >>ALT+SHIFT (T

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/27/2014 05:34 PM, Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: On 9/27/14, softwatt wrote: I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may need to do it multiple

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Ric Moore
On 09/27/2014 04:41 PM, softwatt wrote: I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may need to do it multiple times if you have multiple languages.

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 9/27/14, softwatt wrote: > I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in > the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing > ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may need to do > it multiple times if you have multiple languages. > > I

Re: Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread softwatt
I had a similar issue, and it turned out I was typing the password in the wrong language. If you use multiple languages, Try pressing ALT+SHIFT (The default language switch) and retrying. You may need to do it multiple times if you have multiple languages. If that is not your issue, I am clueless.

Can't unlock the screensaver

2014-09-27 Thread Stefan Monnier
e. I tried it with other users (displaying their lock on my screen via an "ssh -X" session), same result (it complains of failed authentication and comes back asking for another password). I tried to use gnome-screensaver instead (version 3.6.1-1), and the result is the same: you can&#

Re: Gnome 3 password-protected screensaver / Jessie

2014-05-30 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/05/14 04:05 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 29.05.2014 15:30, schrieb Gary Dale: In may case, I have a working screen saver when using the KDE desktop but not when using Gnome 3. Checking with Synaptic, I have screen saver packages installed but they don't appear to functioning when using Gno

Re: Gnome 3 password-protected screensaver / Jessie

2014-05-30 Thread David Dušanić
g Gnome 3. I am not a regular Gnome user but I usually use gnome-screensaver to lock the screen, nothing else.   -- David Dusanic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/4805791401436...@web3h.yandex.ru

Re: Gnome 3 password-protected screensaver / Jessie

2014-05-29 Thread Michael Biebl
Am 29.05.2014 15:30, schrieb Gary Dale: > In may case, I have a working screen saver when using the KDE desktop > but not when using Gnome 3. Checking with Synaptic, I have screen saver > packages installed but they don't appear to functioning when using Gnome 3. Are you using gdm3 as display man

Re: Gnome 3 password-protected screensaver / Jessie

2014-05-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/05/14 06:47 AM, D.E. Bil wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:31:52PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: Does such a thing exist and how can I activate it if it does? Install "suckless-tools" and check out "slock". Thanks. With xautolock it works. I added it to the gnome session startup which should

Re: Gnome 3 password-protected screensaver / Jessie

2014-05-29 Thread Gary Dale
On 29/05/14 07:14 AM, David Dušanić wrote: 29.05.2014, 05:24, "Gary Dale" : ...but there is no provision for a password. Just begin to type your password and you will see a prompt to log in. No I don't. If I touch the keyboard or mouse when the screen blanker or power-suspend is in effect, t

Re: Gnome 3 password-protected screensaver / Jessie

2014-05-29 Thread David Dušanić
29.05.2014, 05:24, "Gary Dale" : ...but there is no provision for a password. Just begin to type your password and you will see a prompt to log in. -- David Dusanic -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Gnome 3 password-protected screensaver / Jessie

2014-05-29 Thread D.E. Bil
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 06:31:52PM -0400, Gary Dale wrote: > Does such a thing exist and how can I activate it if it does? Install "suckless-tools" and check out "slock". -- debil :wq -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Gnome 3 password-protected screensaver / Jessie

2014-05-28 Thread Gary Dale
On 28/05/14 06:54 PM, Filip wrote: On Wed, 28 May 2014 18:31:52 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: Does such a thing exist and how can I activate it if it does? Last time I checked it was still included, and you could set up up with the standard settings menu in gnome-shell. Blank screen only, of cours

Re: Gnome 3 password-protected screensaver / Jessie

2014-05-28 Thread Filip
On Wed, 28 May 2014 18:31:52 -0400 Gary Dale wrote: > Does such a thing exist and how can I activate it if it does? > > Last time I checked it was still included, and you could set up up with the standard settings menu in gnome-shell. Blank screen only, of course. But as they are prone to rem

Gnome 3 password-protected screensaver / Jessie

2014-05-28 Thread Gary Dale
Does such a thing exist and how can I activate it if it does? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/538663d8.20...@torfree.net

Re: The quest for a multimonitor screensaver

2014-04-05 Thread Ric Moore
Huh, it starts way over to the right-most monitor. Since it is windowed, I can drag it full lenght to the left and I have fishes swimming through all of the monitors. Now to get that full screen and dis-engage when I activate the mouse or keyboard. WHOOPS! Correction! It's starting on the 3rd

Re: The quest for a multimonitor screensaver

2014-04-04 Thread Ric Moore
...for four monitors. But, it doesn't jump to fullscreen number 1 > monitor (leftmost) , although I can drag the window to the first > monitor and pull on the sides and bottom to fill all the monitors. It > works, so that is sort of a proof of concept. Anyone know how to > achieve the effect des

Re: The quest for a multimonitor screensaver

2014-04-04 Thread Tom Furie
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 07:05:28PM -0400, Ric Moore wrote: > Uberto Lauri has been a source of great help, And so far I've > gotten this far towards a multiscreen screensaver > by running one directly like this: > ric@iam:/usr/lib/xscreensaver$ ./glschool -geometry 5440x1024+1

The quest for a multimonitor screensaver

2014-04-04 Thread Ric Moore
Uberto Lauri has been a source of great help, And so far I've gotten this far towards a multiscreen screensaver by running one directly like this: ric@iam:/usr/lib/xscreensaver$ ./glschool -geometry 5440x1024+1 ...for four monitors. But, it doesn't jump to fullscreen number

Re: Multiple monitors - one screensaver

2014-02-24 Thread Gian Uberto Lauri
Ric Moore writes: > Has anyone managed to get one screensaver stretched across multiple > monitors? I use the nvidia driver with four monitors using two nvidia > cards. Ric Which screensaver? I use dual heading, no DE, only X11, window manager & shell. The old venerable xlock

Multiple monitors - one screensaver

2014-02-24 Thread Ric Moore
Has anyone managed to get one screensaver stretched across multiple monitors? I use the nvidia driver with four monitors using two nvidia cards. Ric -- My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.

Re: something triggering my screensaver timeout (login dialog) - sid, xfce

2014-01-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 12:17:37AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > OK, time for some cannons: > > I wrote a brief wrapper script for xscreensaver and > xscreensaver-command, and redirected the /usr/bin/ versions to my > versions which output two lines to a log file. Heres some output: > > /home/j

Re: something triggering my screensaver timeout (login dialog) - sid, xfce

2014-01-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 1/5/14, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Sb, 04 ian 14, 13:33:05, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> My login dialog, after I lock my screen, gets repeatedly triggered - >> as though some keyboard key or mouse movement occurs - even after >> unplugging my two mice. >> >> I have a trackpad which is disabled in

Re: something triggering my screensaver timeout (login dialog) - sid, xfce

2014-01-05 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 04 ian 14, 13:33:05, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > My login dialog, after I lock my screen, gets repeatedly triggered - > as though some keyboard key or mouse movement occurs - even after > unplugging my two mice. > > I have a trackpad which is disabled in bios. > > There is a trackpoint - the

Re: something triggering my screensaver timeout (login dialog) - sid, xfce

2014-01-04 Thread Zenaan Harkness
export DISPLAY=:0) and from another Linux console (two GNU screen sessions in one Linux console actually, so I could detach, and reattach in X later, to cut and paste into this email): $ xscreensaver-command -lock xscreensaver-command: activating and locking. Here is the xev output in response to the s

Re: something triggering my screensaver timeout (login dialog) - sid, xfce

2014-01-04 Thread Robin
On 4 January 2014 02:33, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > My login dialog, after I lock my screen, gets repeatedly triggered - > as though some keyboard key or mouse movement occurs - even after > unplugging my two mice. > > I have a trackpad which is disabled in bios. > > There is a trackpoint - the only

something triggering my screensaver timeout (login dialog) - sid, xfce

2014-01-03 Thread Zenaan Harkness
My login dialog, after I lock my screen, gets repeatedly triggered - as though some keyboard key or mouse movement occurs - even after unplugging my two mice. I have a trackpad which is disabled in bios. There is a trackpoint - the only thing left. Is there a program or cmd line script I could r

Re: Invoking the screensaver AND backups [WAS:RE: Dying hard drive?]

2012-12-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 02:15:58PM -0600, Nelson Green wrote: > > Chris Bannister, you mentioned /etc/inittab. I don't think that X passes > the key presses to it, and I always disable that functionality anyhow. This > is not an OS that needs that work-around for a reboot, and I don't want > anyon

Invoking the screensaver AND backups [WAS:RE: Dying hard drive?]

2012-12-03 Thread Nelson Green
> Does > Main Menu -> Settings -> Keyboard -> Application Shortcuts > not work for Ctrl-Alt-Del? > > Ie using command: > xscreensaver-command -lock Hi Zenaan, Well your question set me on the right track. I installed the XFCE window manager, and Application Shortcuts shows Ctrl-Alt-Del mapped to

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