Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 186771
screensaver keeps starting even though timeout is set to 10 mins
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:28 EST
Description of problem: gnome screen saver is set to a 10 minute timeout, but it still fires and locks my screen even if i have just moved my mouse. This has happened two or three times in the 18 minutes my machine has been on. It seems that something is very wrong with the timeout code. I have had a couple of minutes "idle" time but nowhere near 10 mins. This could be related to bug #181882 as today is when the clock went forward an hour, but I have had simialr behaviour on other days. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): gnome-screensaver-2.14.0-1 How reproducible: seems to be a regular occurance Steps to Reproduce: 1. do stuff while gnome-screensaver is enabled with timeout to 10 mins. perhaps idle for a few mins now and then 2. 3. Actual results: gnome-screensaver will start while you are doing stuff Expected results: gnome-screensaver does not start. Additional info:
I think what you are seeing is bug 186772. Even though you filed it earlier I will close this one as duplicate. The other one contains some more references. Feel free to reopen if this is something else. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 186772 ***
Persumably its the same things, however I have also had the screen-saver come on while I'm writing an email. Although that *could* just be the delay between starting the screen save and it actually starting. I know xscreensaver would sometimes do the fade to black before realising that there has been user input