Re: GDM won't unlock screen
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:06:42PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
>
> I recently installed Debian Testing on my laptop, an HP dv6-1355dx,
> which had been running Ubuntu. Once I got past the missing wireless
> tools and drivers things have been pretty smooth. However, there is an
> oddity in GDM regarding screen locking which I cannot seem to figure
> out.
>
> With the default settings, using gnome-power-manager, whenever I close
> the lid the computer suspends and the screen locks. However, when I
> open the screen it does not give me a password box or any such thing,
> but rather the screen is just black. This persists until I manually
> switch to a console and back to F7 or F8, whichever is running X, and
> only then will the expected password box appear.
>
Have you tried hitting a key or wiggling the mouse, instead of switching
to a console and back?
> I have looked through the seemingly related settings but can find
> nothing which seems wrong or unexpected. I have currently turned off
> the screen-locking selection in the screensaver settings which keeps
> things from locking up, in both ways, and so does not ask for a
> password. This is okay, though I would rather like to have things
> working in the optimal way.
>
There's always xscreensaver. You could use that instead.
-Rob
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