Fwd: gnome-screensaver wirdness

[Iván Zaera Avellón]

Hi all:

I sent this mail to Dmitry yesterday but got no confirmation from him,
so I'm sending it again to the list. I have googled a bit and some
Linux distro have also this problem (at least Kubuntu, Debian and
OpenSUSE that I know).

Can anybody experiencing the problem try to change the screensaver to
a non-OpenGL and try again. Also I remember that, although the lock
dialog didn't appear, I could type my password and unlock the screen.

If you confirm this error I'm afraid the problem is in the original
code for X11 or OpenGL or the screensavers, in which case it wouldn't
be a FreeBSD only problem and would have to be corrected in the
upstream code.

Regards,
Ivan

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Iván Zaera Avellón <izaera at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:33 PM
Subject: Re: gnome-screensaver wirdness
To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru>


Hi Dmitry:

I'm new to FreeBSD so I don't know the internals of the system, but
I'm changing from Debian/Linux and had the same problem some months
ago (to add more differences to your case, I had KDE instead of
GNOME).

In my case it was an interaction between OpenGL, transparency in the
video driver, the screensaver and the desktop lock program. The bypass
solution I found was to stop using OpenGL screensaver (apart from
killing the screen saver or the desktop lock programs from a text
console, as you say).

I don't know if this can help you because, as I said, my configuration
was totally different from yours, but I just wanted to share my
solution because the problems looked similar.

Hope it helps,
Ivan Zaera