Description of problem: Sometimes when my screensaver is supposed to be operating I see a fatter-than-normal arrow on a blank screen and then I can't do anything to get back into the session I had left. The only way I've found to recover is to hit ctrl-alt-backspace, that logs me out, kills anything I had been doing, and sends me back to a login screen. I had the screensaver set on random. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): This is on Fedora 7 with most updates applied, except for those thar arrived today. How reproducible: I don't know. This happens occasionally. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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Created attachment 301636 [details] xorg.conf, as requested
Created attachment 301638 [details] Xorg log, as requested
I happen to have noticed my system going into screen saver mode. I saw the fatter-than-normal arrow appear momentarily and then one of the screensaver themes began to operate. As I originally stated, my screensaver selection is "Random", which somehow selects from among the available screensaver themes. I noticed that one of the themes is a Pictures Folder. I have not defined a pictures folder nor have I populated a folder with pictures. I now suspect that somehow, if the random selection falls on Pictures Folder and the screensaver does not find one, the software freezes unrecoverably instead of handling the exception and making another selection. I would guess that, when the freeze occurs, the fatter-than-normal arrow remains on the screen. Please consider my suspicion as a possibility.
I did an rpm -qil on gnome-screensaver and could find no documentation on how or where to set up a Pictures Folder. Nor could I find documentation or a file where I could eliminate the Pictures Folder as an option. The documentation that comes up after clicking Help on the screensaver preferences page says to look at distro documentation for anything relevant to themes.
This is not Xorg bug, reassigning to better component.
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