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Bug#997794: xscreensaver: systemd integration leads to spurious deactivations (unblank) on desktop

From Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#997794: xscreensaver: systemd integration leads to spurious deactivations (unblank) on desktop
Date 2021-10-25 22:10 +0200
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First, upgrade to 6.02. Then, run xscreensaver with -log to see what's going on. Probably some other app is trying to disable blanking while locked.

> Killing the "xscreensaver-systemd" process fixed it. Being an
> always-running desktop, it is never suspended, so from reading its man
> page, I gather xscreensaver-systemd doesn't do anything useful for
> that particular machine.

xscreensaver-systemd is also the mechanism by which most movie players and web browsers tell XScreenSaver to not blank the screen while a video is playing.

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Jamie Zawinski      https://www.jwz.org/      https://www.dnalounge.com/

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Bug#997794: xscreensaver: systemd integration leads to spurious deactivations (unblank) on desktop Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> - 2021-10-24 16:40 +0200
  Bug#997794: xscreensaver: systemd integration leads to spurious deactivations (unblank) on desktop Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> - 2021-10-25 22:10 +0200
    Bug#997794: xscreensaver: systemd integration leads to spurious deactivations (unblank) on desktop Lionel Élie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> - 2021-10-26 09:40 +0200
    Bug#997794: xscreensaver: systemd integration leads to spurious deactivations (unblank) on desktop Lionel Élie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> - 2021-11-07 17:50 +0100
      Bug#997794: xscreensaver: systemd integration leads to spurious deactivations (unblank) on desktop Lionel Élie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> - 2021-11-07 19:40 +0100
        Bug#997794: xscreensaver: systemd integration leads to spurious deactivations (unblank) on desktop Jamie Zawinski <jwz@jwz.org> - 2021-11-07 19:50 +0100
        Bug#997794: xscreensaver: systemd integration leads to spurious deactivations (unblank) on desktop Lionel Élie Mamane <lionel@mamane.lu> - 2021-11-07 20:30 +0100

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