I have the same issue with XFCE 4.12 on Fedora 25. After the xscreensaver
gets triggered, I gets triggered again whenever I switch to another window
in Firefox.I had to uninstall it because it became too annoying.

The problem is that now Screen Lock on the panel does not work🤔

JP

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com> wrote:

> On 06/29/2017 08:35 AM, Craig Lanning wrote:
> > I did an upgrade from F24 to F25.
> >
> > Everything seems to be working fine.
> >
> > I use xscreensaver instead of gnome-screensaver with a Gnome desktop.
> >
> > I have noticed that the timer for the screensaver is not being reset
> > when I type or use the mouse.  I can be using the machine and the
> > screensaver will activate and then deactivate (since I'm typing or
> > using the mouse).
> >
> > Has anyone else noticed this kind of behavior?
>
> I do with Xfce/xscreensaver. It can be annoying, but I had written it
> off to using synergy to share my desktop's mouse and keyboard with my
> laptop off to the side. I assumed the screensaver was being triggered by
> the lack of activity on the laptop. Perhaps that was wrong. I do know
> that if either screen is blank, hitting a key on the laptop OR the
> desktop wakes up both displays. Again, I wrote this off to synergy.
>
> > Is this something with xscreensaver or is the timer reset somewhere
> > else?
>
> Uhm, perhaps something else is consuming the mouse moves/keyboard
> activity before the screensaver sees it. Smells more like a dbus
> issue to me, but I could be wrong.
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