On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 07:04:10PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: Hello Landry,
>> Installing meta/xfce installs xfce4-screensaver. However, >> xfce4-screensaver seems to have the unfortunate behaviour of messing with >> the user's X screensaver settings, even when the screensaver is disabled >> in XFCE. This caused me a certain amount of head-scratching when my >> `.xsession` loaded `xidle` but no matter what idle times I used, another >> timeout was used -- which, AFAICS, is the timeout set by >> xfce4-screensaver. In other words, `xidle -timeout <n>` did not respect >> `n`, although `xidle` did still run its sub-command (just at a timeout >> other than `n`). > what do you mean by "screensaver is disabled in XFCE" ? process not > running, process running, disabled how/where ? The screensaver is (was...) not enabled in Settings > Screensaver and I also disabled it in Settings > Session & Startup -- yet, I eventually realised, there always seemed to be an xfce4-screensaver process running. I can't rule out that I did something stupid in some way, but I don't tend to do a great deal of configuration with XFCE. Laurie
