On Saturday 03 June 2006 22:19, Shawn wrote: > On Saturday 03 June 2006 20:50, Mitchell Brown wrote: > > This is really puzzling me! I loaded up Ubuntu Dapper (and I really like > > it) and for whatever reason, my screen won't lock. I goto the little > > power button, hit lock. The dialog dissapears, but, right where you'd > > expect to find it lock -- it just doesn't. It worked fine before I > > reinstalled yesterday :-/ > > > > Any ideas? I've changed passwords, and I've changed screensavers. Still > > doesn't work. Even on another user. > > I think this is a problem with the screen saver system of some sort. I've > been testing today to see if the screen saver would kick in, and it refuses > to - but using the test button works fine. Seeing as locking the screen > and enabling the screen savers are closely related.... > > i was just about to try some steps to look into this. > > In the meantime, did you do a google search? Did you look at the known > bugs for kubuntu? This info would be helpful in my efforts as well.
Found a solution that works for me. See the bug listed at https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kubuntu-meta/+bug/40571. I ran the command: /usr/bin/xset dpms 43200 43200 43200 then came back to the box after a time away, and the screensaver was running. So, I'll create a script with this, and put it in my ~/.kde/Autostart directory... That should resolve the problem for me. It should also resolve the lock problems (I think). It *might* even resolve some of the resume/suspend problems. But I could be overly generalizing here.... Now, I probably *should* go find what that command does.. :) Shawn _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
