On 1/4/19 9:24 AM, Frédéric Pierret wrote:
On 1/4/19 1:51 AM, unman wrote:On Fri, Jan 04, 2019 at 12:03:49AM +0100, Frédéric Pierret wrote:We built the upstream package of xscreensaver in current-testing for both Qubes 3.2 and 4.0. Welcome back to XFCE Chris :D ! On 1/3/19 11:56 PM, Chris Laprise wrote:On 01/03/2019 02:00 PM, Achim Patzner wrote:Am Mittwoch, den 02.01.2019, 20:42 -0800 schrieb pixel fairy:xscreensaver complains about being an old version. doubt this matters, but might scare some users.There are worse problems with it (and some of them depend on X and the hardware you're running on) which might also warrant finding something different. I just have to find some time for constant rebooting of my system to create a meaningful bug report. (To give you an idea: Imagine a machine (let's call it Lenovo P52) with multiple GPUs where certain output channels are connected to one of the GPUs only starting a screen server. If you connect your second monitor to the right port the screen saver will not blank one of them if you start X without an appropriately xorg.conf... And to make things worse it also depends on the GPU you are using and the phase of the moon.)The bad screensaver is one of the reasons I switched back to KDE, and why I recommend it to other Qubes users. The default environment doesn't rise to the level of an every day functional desktop.
I fully agree - xscreensaver has lots of issues. Many of the screensavers do though. E.g. most won't survive an X server crash due to e.g. OOM killer, but your X server will probably be restarted automatically and leave your screen unprotected...
In total it's not wise to trust one's screensaver for anything sincere.
Is this a thing now? Is Qubes going to provide updated packages for any other software?Absolutely not. It is just because it is annoying, at least, under XFCE.
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