turning off Screen Lock in F19 GNOME doesn't work

Tue Oct 15 17:51:53 UTC 2013

Andre Robatino <robatino <at> fedoraproject.org> writes:

> 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

The bug was just closed as NOTABUG with the comment "Get the gnome devs to
blacklist it." Since you obviously understand this stuff much better than
me, does that sound like a reasonable response?