Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 69015
Screensaver can activate on vnc session
Last modified: 2013-04-30 19:33:11 EDT
When using gnome (and I think kde as well) under vnc the screen saver can kick in. This is very bad, since it could waste an incredible amount of bandwidth. It's very hard to decide to allow users to run vnc if there's no method of disallowing them from running a screen saver (screen savers are turned on by default). Best fix would be for vnc to somehow disable screen savers as it begins. Is this possible? It's not possible to uninstall xscreensaver to achieve this, because xscreensaver is required by control-center.
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I'm going to close this bug because RHL doesn't have support. If the bug is in latest vnc release, I'm ready to reopen this bug