Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 124782
xscreensaver-demo turns on just this application which one is trying turn off
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:43 EST
Description of problem: Assume that some xscreensaver application it creating problems and that one tries to turn it off either via preference settings or calling xscreensaver-demo directly; which boils down to the same. Even just touching a check button to turn that off brings up that troublesome program in question and if this locks up a machine (which just happened to me due, turned out, to test of some development kernels) then one is stuck in an "interesting" chicken-or-egg problem. If moreover "Only One Screen Saver" with a "wrong" entry was put there then just attempting to open a configuration is locking up the whole thing. One can get out from that vicious cirle by directly editing ~/.xscreensaver file but this is not entirely obvious that one should look just there and not in some gconf entries. It would be nice to have _at least_ some delay to allow to change some settings without triggering troubles. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xscreensaver-4.14-5
Hi Michal, Adding artificial delays to get around lock up problems is probably not the best approach. A better approach would be to fix the lock up problems. Any lock up problems should be fixed on a case-by-case basis in separate bug reports, of course.