Hi,
I have noticed a very annoying thing after an upgrade to Fedora 36. My screen blanks after 30 seconds of idle. It is set to blank, and lock screen, after 10 minutes. I even tried to reset these settings, but still no luck. Never seen this before, and started after upgrade to F36.
Anyone else seen this? Anyone who can give a pointer on what to check?
Running Gnome, Xorg.
Lars
On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 09:23 +0200, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
Anyone else seen this? Anyone who can give a pointer on what to check?
Do you have more than one screensaver installed?
On Fri, 20 May 2022 20:13:13 +0930 Tim via users users@lists.fedoraproject.org wrote:
On Fri, 2022-05-20 at 09:23 +0200, Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
Anyone else seen this? Anyone who can give a pointer on what to check?
Do you have more than one screensaver installed?
I experienced this very thing. I have xfce installed, but was running lxde. I had xscreensaver turned off, but my screen kept blanking and locking. It turned out that the xfce screensaver activated whether xfce was running or not. I changed the settings in the xfce screensaver and that fixed the problem.
Hi,
On 2022-05-20 20:13:13+0930, Tim via users wrote:
Do you have more than one screensaver installed?
No.
It seem to have been cleared with the updated kernel and Nvidia kmod yesterday, kernel-5.17.9-300, I have not seen the behavior since then, so so far all seem OK again. A bit strange...
Lars
Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
My screen blanks after 30 seconds of idle.
On a tangential note: What kind of slave driver thought a 30 second timeout was appropriate for a screensaver? Work damn you, work, no slacking off! I'm sure there's a Dilbert cartoon about that kind of thing somewhere.
On Sat, 2022-05-21 at 12:17 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
Lars E. Pettersson wrote:
My screen blanks after 30 seconds of idle.
On a tangential note: What kind of slave driver thought a 30 second timeout was appropriate for a screensaver? Work damn you, work, no slacking off! I'm sure there's a Dilbert cartoon about that kind of thing somewhere.
I don't have a dog in this fight, but the desktop presumably allows you to configure the timeout.
poc
Tim:
On a tangential note: What kind of slave driver thought a 30 second timeout was appropriate for a screensaver? Work damn you, work, no slacking off! I'm sure there's a Dilbert cartoon about that kind of thing somewhere.
Patrick O'Callaghan:
I don't have a dog in this fight, but the desktop presumably allows you to configure the timeout.
I'd think so, too. But 30 seconds as the default?! I just sounds like a mad management idea... We've set all the worker's PCs to 30 second timeouts so if they stop working horrifying pictures appears and scares them back into working. Productivity is up by 30%.
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