Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76536
Interrupting screensaver as it starts to fade to black leaves you unable to access access desktop
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:47:53 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: After leaving computer idle (reading a long web page) the screen saver kicks in and begins to fade to black. If you interrupt the mouse as it begins to to fad to black it returns you to the the desktop but there is no mouse or keyboard input. A similar experience (had to do it a few times to make it break) is to [See "Steps to reproduce"] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1) killall xscreensaver 2) run xscreensaver in an xterm 3) click settings 4) click "preview" and wiggle he mouse immidiately (might take a few attempts) 5) if 4) doesn't work....keep hammering the preview button so it goes in and out of the screensaver very quickly over and over. Additional info: The gfx card/driver I'm using is a geforce 2GTS with the default redhat supplied nv driver
Hi Adrian, I assume this problem was fixed a long time ago. I can't reproduce it with a recent version of xscreensaver. If you still experience problems, feel free to reopen this bug report.