Re: xscreensaver fails to activate via "Preview" button or via "Blank after" setting
On Mon, 13 Feb 2023 08:12:19 -0500
Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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. It does still work via direct activation via
> "xscreensaver-command" (and it is successfully activated by the system upon
> suspend-to-ram).
>
> I filed a bug about this, but subsequent to an interesting discussion
> of the architecture of the software and its Debian packaging, the
> maintainer closed the bug as unreproducible. The issues raised in the
> bug discussion do not seem to apply to my system, but xscreensaver
> nevertheless remains broken here. Can anyone help me figure this out?
Sorry, forgot to cite the bug report:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1014782
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Celejar
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