[2167] in SIPB bug reports
xscreensaver bug?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun Oct 13 18:35:12 1991
Date: Sun, 13 Oct 91 18:34:43 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@pit-manager.MIT.EDU>
To: wolvie@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@Athena.MIT.EDU, wolvie@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: wolvie@Athena.MIT.EDU's message of Sun, 13 Oct 91 02:18:53 EDT <9110130618.AA27182@W20-575-94.MIT.EDU>
That probably means that xscreensaver and your window manager are
starting up around the same time -- your window manager is grabbing
the pointer while configuring, and therefore xscreensaver can't grab
it.
There's nothing to be done about it inside xscreensaver --
xscreensaver does need to be able to grab the pointer in order to
lock. The best you can do is to put a sleep before the invocation of
xscreensaver so that it doesn't try to grab the pointer until after
your window manager has finished initializing.
--> Jonathan Kamens
IS/Athena Quality Assurance and User Consulting
Treasurer, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
jik@Athena.MIT.EDU
