While I might not know what is Compiz, I certainly can recognize familiar smell of major trouble coming - when I hear about upgrading U-buntu for the last 12 releases AND not practicing regular clean installs.
Just a word of caution, T On Wed, May 9, 2018, 6:38 PM John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 10 May 2018 00:20:13 +0000 > Tim Garton <[email protected]> dijo: > > >What did you dist upgrade from? If it was Ubuntu 17.10 you are probably > >running Wayland, which is most likely the problem. They reverted back > >to Xorg with 18.04, but if you upgraded from 17.10 it may have carried > >Wayland as the default from that. Wayland breaks many things, not the > >least of which is the screensaver API. > > What you said is possible. > > I have three computers: > 1. desktop built 2 mos ago, started with Xubuntu 17.10 and just > upgraded to 18.04. > 2. Lenovo T61 laptop, had 12.04 when it was retired; recently > revived and dist-upgraded to 14.04 > 16.04 > 18.04 > 3. System76 laptop, still running Xubuntu 14.04.5. Has VLC 2.2.5 > which inhibits the screensaver as it should. > > Both 1 and 2 have VLC 3.0.1 (from the dist-upgrades), which fails to > inhibit the screensaver. > > I wonder what pieces of Wayland are still on 1 and 2, and what kind of > exorcism is needed to get rid of them. > > While VLC 3.0.1 is the current version in the 18.04 repositories, > version 3.0.2 has been released. I've looked everywhere for a change-log > to see if it addresses this issue, but can't find one. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
