Re: [SLE] screensaver stops working

From: Alex Angerhofer (alex_at_chem.ufl.edu)
Date: 10/23/03

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    Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 19:53:14 -0400 (EDT)
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    Jim: thanks for the quick response. You are probably right on with your
    diagnosis. It seems like the problem only appears whenever I have vmware
    running. I will follow your advice.

    Best regards, Alex.

    On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Jim Cunning wrote:

    > Wednesday 22 Oct at 7:24pm, Alex Angerhofer wrote:
    >
    > > Hi List,
    > >
    > > This is a P-III 950 MHz, 640 MB RAM system running SuSE 8.2 stock and
    > > patchd with the latest upgrade packages. I run 16 desktops on kde with
    > > all of them having at least one or two application windows open, vmware
    > > and a win98 guest being one of them.
    > > Occasionally I experience the lack of screensaver action. For no apparent
    > > reason the screensaver stops kicking in after its prescribed 5 minutes.
    > > When I restart kde everything is fine ... for a couple of days until the
    > > problem reappears. Has anybody else seen this behavior? Where should I
    > > start to probe and trouble shoot?
    > >
    > > Thanks for any pointers, ALex.
    >
    > Your problem is probably caused by vmWare. Whenever I stay in my vmware
    > window longer than the screensaver timeout period, the kde screensaver
    > process starts, but cannot clear the screen, due to some way that vmware
    > grabs the keyboard and xserver I've heard. There may be a version of
    > vmware that doesn't exhibit this problem, but I don't have it.
    >
    > My solution is to kill all 'desktop_lock' processes manually after I leave
    > the vmware window. Rebooting and/or restarting of KDE is not necessary.
    >
    > Jim Cunning
    >
    >
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