An interesting problem with 3.8.18

[Net Llama!]

On 01/16/03 17:35, Collins wrote:
> 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.

I've seen that as a symptom of bad RAM.

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