[25813] in Athena Bugs
linux xscreensaver dualhead cannot unlock
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken T Takusagawa)
Thu Jul 15 13:49:07 2004
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Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 13:49:03 -0400
From: Ken T Takusagawa <kenta@mit.edu>
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Using athena linux 9.3 defaults, xscreensaver refuses to accept
keyboard input (that is, refuses to display an unlock dialog) after it
starts screen saving. The only way to stop it seems to be to log in
remotely and kill -9 the xscreensaver process.
This behavior happens on a dualheaded (multimonitor) display, using a
matrox g400 dualhead video card, with Xinerama.
In a change from 9.2 behavior, it is interesting that 9.3 xscreensaver
runs two independent screen savers on each monitor. Under 9.2, a
single screen saver stretched across both displays. This may or may
not be related to the bug above.
Another interesting new-to-9.3 behavior, seen once so far, is that the
"pedal" screen saver seems to grow in memory without limit.
--ken
