Bug 674410

Summary:	Screensaver sucks with Live CD in VirtualBox
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Raphael Groner <projects.rg>
Component:	LiveCD - Xfce	Assignee:	Christoph Wickert <cwickert>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	cwickert, jmccann, kevin, rstrode
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Description Raphael Groner 2011-02-01 19:10:40 UTC

Description of problem:
Problems to interrupt screen saver in VirtualBox. I guess an issue with VirtualBox' ACPI to pass keystrokes or mouse events immediately to screensaver applications and unlock screen then.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
XFCE Live (nightly)

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. wait some time to get screensaver becoming active
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Actual results:
Locked virtual machine. It is often only possible to get it back with "reset machine" command in VirtualBox menu.

Expected results:
Screensaver disabled, at least if run in VirtualBox.

Additional info:
Only tested with XFCE Spin.

Comment 1 Kevin Fenzi 2011-02-01 19:20:17 UTC

NOTE: we shouldn't be running or starting or using gnome-screensaver in Xfce (IMHO), it should be xscreensaver only. 

Also, we should probibly disable it on live media until after install.

Comment 2 Raphael Groner 2011-02-02 08:47:01 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
Yeah, it is good to have a screensaver on the live media as well, but it should be disabled by default, so the user could enable it if liked. Screensavers are good for demonstration purpose.

Comment 3 Christoph Wickert 2011-02-02 21:48:03 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Description of problem:
> Problems to interrupt screen saver in VirtualBox. I guess an issue with
> VirtualBox' ACPI to pass keystrokes or mouse events immediately to screensaver
> applications and unlock screen then.

Was the window focused? You need to click to focus if the vbox guest additions are not installed. If this doesn't work correctly, it is a vbox problem.

> Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
> XFCE Live (nightly)

When you file a bug against the livecd, please provide a date of the composal. And if you file a bug against gnome-screensaver, provide the output of 'rpm -q gnome-screensaver'. You would have noticed that gnome-screensaver is not installed on the Xfce livecd.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Also, we should probibly disable it on live media until after install.

It was already in the ks, but didn't really work. We only disabled locking but not the screensaver. Fixed in http://git.fedorahosted.org/git?p=spin-kickstarts.git;a=commit;h=e81373e7aca37fce1913a34a2363305be7ce0c43