turning off Screen Lock in F19 GNOME doesn't work

Tue Oct 15 16:12:27 UTC 2013

Olav Vitters <olav <at> vitters.nl> writes:

> Cinnamon bug. It seems cinnamon-screensaver was forked from
> gnome-screensaver, but they didn't adjust the autostart file. So
> currently it is configured to start under GNOME and Unity. Breaking
> things under GNOME.
> 
> Please file a bug. Note: the bug is in Cinnamon, because I see the same
> in Mageia.

I was locked out and was able to get back in by going to a VT and killing
the cinnamon-screensaver process.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1019405