Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Jonathan Dowland writes: > On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 09:20:48PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: >> I can't reproduce this in a quick test: >> >> Terminal 1: sleep 5 ; notify-send foo >> Terminal 2: xscreensaver-command -lock >> >> No "foo" notification pops up over the screensaver image. >> >> (This

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-03 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 09:20:48PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: I can't reproduce this in a quick test: Terminal 1: sleep 5 ; notify-send foo Terminal 2: xscreensaver-command -lock No "foo" notification pops up over the screensaver image. (This is with awesome, maybe the story is different

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 06:16:58AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > In a fresh install of Buster with XFCE desktop, locking the screen > blanks the monitor and the monitor enters a power save state. After > that, neither moving the mouse nor typing on the keyboard would turn > the monitor back

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Georg Faerber writes: > On 19-06-01 11:04:28, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I did some research on that a while back and ended up not filing a bug >> about it because it looked relatively pointless. It appeared to be a >> deep design choice on both sides, and not something anyone was likely >> to

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Georg Faerber
Hi Russ, all, On 19-06-01 11:04:28, Russ Allbery wrote: > I did some research on that a while back and ended up not filing a bug > about it because it looked relatively pointless. It appeared to be a > deep design choice on both sides, and not something anyone was likely > to solve, so I just

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
gregor herrmann writes: > I can't reproduce this in a quick test: > Terminal 1: sleep 5 ; notify-send foo > Terminal 2: xscreensaver-command -lock > No "foo" notification pops up over the screensaver image. > (This is with awesome, maybe the story is different for desktop > environments.)

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread gregor herrmann
On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 11:04:28 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > It's worth noting here that xscreensaver has an IMO serious security > vulnerability (unless maybe this has been fixed?): because it doesn't > integrate properly with the desktop, it doesn't hide desktop > notifications. I can't

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Russ Allbery
Adam Borowski writes: > But, the culprit is light-locker. In general, it's in such a buggy > state that I believe it shouldn't be in the distribution at all, much > less a default of any kind. After it replaced xscreensaver[1] as the > xfce's dependency, I went into some pretty heated

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 06:29:31PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > Using unstable myself, I'm not sure what to recommend for Buster. https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/physlock signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hey Adam On 2019/06/01 18:29, Adam Borowski wrote: > At the time of the xscreensaver debacle, there was no sane alternative > (candidates depended on 80% of GNOME, offered no feedback nor discoverable > controls to the user, etc). There _is_ a wonderful alternative now: > xfce4-screensaver,

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Adam Borowski
On Sat, Jun 01, 2019 at 11:06:42AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > > This appears to be a bug in light-locker specifically, which is the > > default screen lock program with XFCE with lightdm. See, for instance: > > > > https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker/issues/114 > > > > Switching to

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
> > Switching to another greeter from the default gtk-greeter appears to help > > according to that bug, which may mean that the bug is actually in > > lightdm-gtk-greeter. There doesn't appear to be a Debian bug for this; it > > might be a good idea to open one against light-locker (or, if you

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-06-01 Thread Andreas Tille
Hi Russ, On Fri, May 31, 2019 at 06:32:52PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > (This probably belonged on debian-user, but since I have background on > this specific problem and already did the research.) While this seems to be a problem for debian-user its very sensible that the issue was raised here

Re: Buster/XFCE unlock screen is blank

2019-05-31 Thread Russ Allbery
(This probably belonged on debian-user, but since I have background on this specific problem and already did the research.) Raj Kiran Grandhi writes: > In a fresh install of Buster with XFCE desktop, locking the screen > blanks the monitor and the monitor enters a power save state. After >