Bug#380544: kscreensaver-xsavers: Although disabled screensaver starts automatically after locking screen
Package: kscreensaver-xsavers
Version: 4:3.5.3-1
Severity: normal
I have wondered why my screen sometimes blanks after 5 minutes even
though power management is set to 30 minutes. I found out that i had the
5 minutes set up in the KDE screensaver-dialog, but that the screensaver
itself was disabled. Using "xset q" i found out that after changing
that value to (lets say) 20 minutes the scrensaver values are correct:
Excerpt from 'xset q'
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Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 0 cycle: 600
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(to change the value i had to activate the scrensaver, change the value,
then deactivate it again)
If i now lock the screen of my computer with the KDE-lockicon in the
taskbar the screensaver comes up (as configured and expected). But after
unlocking the screen the screensaver somehow has read its timeout-value
from the config-file, even though it is still disabled:
Excerpt from 'xset q'
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Screen Saver:
prefer blanking: yes allow exposures: yes
timeout: 1210 cycle: 600
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The timeout-value in the X-Server will return to zero if you change the
timeout in KDE as described above.
The workaround is obvious: set the timeout to a value that will not
disturb you (like 240 minutes, your eyes would be squares by then ;-)
but it irks me and may confuse people, hence i reported that little
bug...
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages kscreensaver-xsavers depends on:
ii kdebase-bin 4:3.5.3-2 core binaries for the KDE base mod
ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.3-1 core libraries and binaries for al
ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-5 GCC support library
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.6-2 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.0-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxt6 1:1.0.0-5 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii xscreensaver 4.24-4 Automatic screensaver for X
Versions of packages kscreensaver-xsavers recommends:
ii kscreensaver 4:3.5.3-1 additional screen savers released
ii kwin 4:3.5.3-2 the KDE window manager
ii xscreensaver-gl 4.24-4 GL(Mesa) screen hacks for xscreens
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