Fedora 19 screensaver

[William Henry]

----- Original Message -----
> On 10/26/2013 04:40 AM, William Henry wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> Roger <arelem <at> bigpond.com> writes:
> >>
> >>> Since updating last week the Fedora 19 screensaver is causing me grief.
> >>> I have it off and time delay set to never but it blanks the screen and
> >>> defaults to a time display after 30+ minutes , on any key press it gives
> >>> the login dialog which cannot be accessed either by tab key or mouse so
> >>> there is no way to log in.
> > +1  F19 Gnome 3 - new issue in the last couple of weeks.
> >
> >> If you have both GNOME and Cinnamon installed and are seeing this in
> >> GNOME,
> >> it's already fixed in the latest F19 updates. It was discussed in
> >> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-October/441728.html .
> >> 0
> > My problem is not that I have it screen lock set to off. I have it set to
> > on. Sometimes the normal unlock screen pops up (Gnome 3 theme look and
> > feel) but other times a more plain unlock screen pops up and will not
> > accept keyboard input.
> >
> > I have updated twice sine this started and it's still occurring.  It is
> > requiring a hard reboot. (I don't know any other way to get around it. -
> > Mouse moves but keyboard does nothing.)
> >
> > Best,
> > William
> >
> >
> Actually it's not fixed.
> I have the latest updates as of yesterday afternoon 25 October and find
> that if one re enters the password with in a few minutes of it switching
> off then one can indeed log in but if one waits say half an hour or
> more, the lock out is permanent and requires cold start.
> Roger

Right. I didn't say it was fixed for me.

I'm glad you diagnosed the problem better. It does seem to happen for longer sleep times. But I notice it doesn't happen all the time for longer sleeps. I will let you know after lunch ;-)

William

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