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Re: light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues)

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On 06/25/2017 05:18 PM, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> Ralph Katz wrote:
> 
>> Yes!  apt history shows light-locker was installed by the dist-upgrade.
>>  I've just purged xscreensaver and can confirm that the time-out errors
>> in syslog occur on resume from screen blanking.
> 
> Did you also kill the xscreensaver daemon?  You might have been getting
> odd behavior due to xscreensaver and light-locker/lightdm fighting over
> the display.

Yes, apt-get purge killed the daemon as well.

> I don't know enough about X to know whether those timeout errors are
> important.  When I've used light-locker, the display would typically
> blank briefly before showing the lightdm screen.  (That's how
> light-locker works: it starts a lightdm instance, which you "log in" to
> in order to unlock the session.)

Yes, but resuming from blank causes the kernel errors in syslog.

> 
>> Other than pushing out the screen lock time which I've done in xfce
>> settings, or disabling the lock, what do you suggest?  light-locker is a
>> "depends" of task-xfce-desktop so not removable.
> 
> If light-locker running by itself still isn't behaving properly, you
> could disable the daemon via the Xfce session control panel.  Untick the
> box in the list of startup applications, and make sure it's not listed
> in the list of currently running applications.
> 
> That would leave you without a screen lock, but I suppose you could
> reinstall xscreensaver.

While purging xscreensaver removed 2 or 3 packages, installing now would
bring in a host of packages, for whatever reason.  I don't need a
screensaver as much as I need the lock.

Ralph

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Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-23 23:50 +0200
  Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-06-24 00:50 +0200
    Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-24 01:40 +0200
      Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-06-24 03:20 +0200
        Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-24 03:30 +0200
          Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2017-06-24 09:30 +0200
            Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-24 17:50 +0200
              Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-25 19:20 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2017-06-25 23:20 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-25 23:50 +0200
                light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues) Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2017-06-26 01:20 +0200
                Re: light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues) Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-26 03:30 +0200
                Re: light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues) Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> - 2017-06-26 04:30 +0200
                Re: light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues) Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-06-26 14:10 +0200
                Re: light-locker (was Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues) Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-26 20:00 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2017-06-26 00:30 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-26 03:30 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Floris <jkfloris@dds.nl> - 2017-06-26 09:00 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-26 20:00 +0200
                Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-06-26 21:00 +0200
                SOLVED xfce volume keys [was: Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie --  several issues] Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-26 21:50 +0200
  Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-06-24 05:30 +0200
    Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Ralph Katz <ralph@ralphkatz.com> - 2017-06-24 06:10 +0200
      Re: Stretch upgrade from Jessie -- several issues Jimmy Johnson <field.engineer@gmail.com> - 2017-06-24 07:40 +0200

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