An interesting problem with 3.8.18

[Rich Shepard]

  From the traffic I see on the mail list perhaps no one's interested in
3.8.18 any more, but I just had a strange experience and I'd like to
understand it so I don't repeat the situation.

  On my client workstation my fiancee was logged in and left for lunch. So,
I tried the lock button widget on the control panel to blank the screen. As
this is what I do on my server/workstation all the time and it does just
fine, I expected the other box to behave the same way.

  Wrong. It locked the monitor all right, but it didn't blank it. As a
matter of fact, the monitor was locked so tightly that I couldn't clear it
remotely by ssh'ing in and killing processes! Like a teenager, it completely
ignored me and (of course) the trackball and keyboard were ignored.

  Has anyone an idea of why this might have happened?

Thanks,

Rich

Dr. Richard B. Shepard, President

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