[6527] in SIPB bug reports
Re: Xscreensaver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Oct 20 02:38:34 1997
To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 20 Oct 1997 02:29:35 EDT."
<199710200629.CAA01733@the-art-of-war.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 02:38:16 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
So, this is really quite gross, but try putting a "sleep 1;" before
the xscreensaver command. It may be failing to lock because it can't
grab the mouse or some other resource. (I'm guessing that you did
this as a windowmanager menu item, and the windowmanager has the mouse
grabbed when the command runs.)
I don't know why it's not killing zaway; maybe the code path for when
it can't grab a resource is buggy and doesn't kill off the appropriate
children.
