[26354] in Athena Bugs
linux 9.3.18: bugme & xscreensaver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Thu Feb 10 21:39:06 2005
Message-Id: <200502110238.j1B2cRLB032684@quickstation-lobby-16-2.mit.edu>
To: bugs@mit.edu
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2005 21:38:27 -0500
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
Errors-To: bugs-bounces@mit.edu
System name: quickstation-lobby-16-2.mit.edu
Type and version: i686 9.3.18
Display type: Matrox Graphics, Inc. MGA G400 AGP (rev 85)
Shell: /bin/sh (/bin/athena/tcsh?)
Window manager: unknown
What were you trying to do?
Use a quickstation
What's wrong:
It's stuck in an interaction between 'bugme' and the autolocking
xscreensaver. IT displays the screensaver window
with the bugme window rapidly oscillating around the screen.
Irionically, when a key is pressed, xscreensaver indicates the
session has been idle for 2h5min, yet bugme only displayed 18min
idle time.
What should have happened:
It should not appear so pathologically broken. Presuambly
bugme should log the user out if the screensaver is running
and the user has been idle >10min or so. Or the screensaver
should log the user out instead of starting when the idle time
passes.
I seem to recall, in the past, this condition being sufficiently
pathological that ctrl-l would not log the user out, and
a reboot was required. That was not the case here.
This probably has been around ever since the auto-xscreensaver
feature was added and quickstations were around; sorry for not
reporting it earlier.
