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Re: Desktop "locking".

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On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 11:15 PM <peter@easthope.ca> wrote:

> Gnome Desktop Manager and Wayland/Weston in Debian 11 here. Two
> screens work nicely on a NVIDIA NV18  [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev
> a2) PCI adapter.
>
> When the console is idle for 4 or 5 minutes the screens go black.
>
> Mouse activity gives a small window with a green disk and title
> "Unlock your desktop". With a click on the green disk and some patience
> the display reappears.
>
> Turning the screen black to prevent unnecessary wear makes sense. The
> green button is superfluous.  I'd rather that mouse or keyboard
> activate the display as quickly as possible.
>
> In /etc/gdm3/greeter.dconf-defaults I set
> sleep-inactive-ac-timeout=0
> and the "locking" is unchanged.
>
> What produces the "lock" window with green disk?  Can it be shut off?
> If so, how?
>

light-locker is the package.  It is a small subset of xscreensaver, if I
recall correctly.

Look it up.  There have been multiple threads in the past on Debian-User
about this critter.  Look it up.  As for shutting it off, it can be
uninstalled, via apt.  But it would be good to research first.

>
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Good luck!

Kenneth Parker

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Desktop "locking". peter@easthope.ca - 2021-12-14 05:20 +0100
  Re: Desktop "locking". Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2021-12-14 06:00 +0100
    Re: Desktop "locking". Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-12-14 10:20 +0100
      Re: Desktop "locking". Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2021-12-14 13:50 +0100
      Re: Desktop "locking". peter@easthope.ca - 2021-12-16 16:50 +0100
        Re: Desktop "locking". Cindy Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2021-12-16 17:10 +0100
          Re: Desktop "locking". peter@easthope.ca - 2021-12-20 04:50 +0100
      [SOLVED] Re: Desktop "locking". peter@easthope.ca - 2021-12-24 20:10 +0100

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