An interesting problem with 3.8.18

[Collins]

On 16 Jan 2003 21:57:22 +0100
Olivier Fourdan <fourdan at xfce.org> wrote:

> Rich,
> 
> Xfce itself doesn't lock your screen but rather invoke either
> xlockmore of xscreensaver, depending on what is available on the host
> system.
> 
> What you describe is probably either a bug in xlock or xscreensaver or
> simply a bad configuration in xscreensaver, or even a crash on X
> because of the blank...
> 

There are one or more screensaver choices in the xscreensaver panoply
that always lock my machine.  One has lots of little colored pixels that
appear all over the screen.  It's been that way for several years. 
Since I didn't have time to prowl through the choices to find the
culprit, I don't use xscreensaver any more.

I wish people would clean up their trash.

> 
> On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 21:39, Rich Shepard wrote:
> >   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?
> > 

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Collins Richey - Denver Area
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