getting back from a black screen

Joe Zeff joe at zeff.us
Mon Apr 8 18:09:02 UTC 2013


On 04/08/2013 07:18 AM, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> In other words, people in this thread have misunderstood eachother.
> "Locking" the screen does not refer to freezing the machine or crashing
> X but just to displaying a passphrase prompt after you've left the
> machine unattended for some time. That can be separate from the screen
> blanker (or screen saver) activity. Neither should make your system
> unusable. That's a bug.

I'm the one who brought it up.  I wanted to make sure that the computer 
was hung, not just that the screensaver was locked.


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