KVM and screen savers

[Rick Stevens]

On 03/11/2010 02:00 PM, BeartoothHOS wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:44:15 -0500, William Henry wrote:
>
>> On my F12 laptop I experience the following issue:
>>
>> If my cursor is in a KVM instance (RHEL 5) and I leave the machine for a
>> while the Fedora screen saver with lock does not kick in.  That is until
>> I press CTRL-ALT to take focus from the RHEL instance back to my Fedora
>> 12. Then the screen saver kicks in.
>
> 	Are you by any strange chance saying KVM as in switch, rather
> than as in virtualization??

If you read his initial post, he says "if my cursor is in a KVM
instance".  My reading is that's KVM virtualization, not a keyboard-
video-mouse switch.  Identical acronyms strike again!  :-)
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