It's either a bug or a poorly documented feature, so I think it should be pursued. If the screensaver is configured to turn off after a certain period, it should turn off after that period unless one opts out for things like watching movies in a browser.
On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 6:28 AM, gf <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi David. So, do you want to persue this issue or should we close the > ticket? > Take care > :) > G > > -- > You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug > report. > https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1625441 > > Title: > KDE screen lock intermittent > > Status in kscreenlocker package in Ubuntu: > Incomplete > > Bug description: > I have my KDE screen locker configured to "Lock screen automatically > after" 1 minute. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. When it > doesn't, I can lock manually with Ctrl-Alt-L. I upgraded from 14.04 > to 16.04.1 ~4 days ago, and it has stopped locking 3 or 4 times. It > was working fine in 14.04. It's particularly annoying for me because I > use my screen saver status and my workspace name to log my hours to > various charge numbers for work. If the screen saver isn't on, I'm > logging hours. > > I wasn't sure what component to file a bug against. I assume > libkscreenlocker5 (there is no kscreenlocker package AFAICT). > > apt-cache policy libkscreenlocker5 > libkscreenlocker5: > Installed: 5.5.5-0ubuntu1 > Candidate: 5.5.5-0ubuntu1 > Version table: > *** 5.5.5-0ubuntu1 500 > 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 > Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > Other info: > I've tried 5 minute locking intervals and changing the interval during > the KDE session where locking isn't working... no change. > > I've looked through all of my workspaces to see if there might be some > dialogue window or panel widget expecting user interaction that might > be disabling the timeout mechanism or something like that. I didn't > find anything of that sort, but I just closed all windows except the > firefox window in which I'm typing this question (emacs, thunderbird, > octave, gramps, google-chrome, konsole, + ???) and the screen saver > worked after that. I'm not sure if that was coincidence or not. I > re-opened an instance of every app that I remember having closed and > the screen saver worked again. > > This is a new Ubuntu 16.04.1 64 bit installation that was converted to > KDE by installing kde-desktop. The user account that I'm using has > its home on another disk and that home directory has been on 12.04 and > 14.04 systems. > > I'm not sure if this is anyway related, but I get a "System > Notification Helper" popup window many hundreds of time per day that > says "Software upgrade notifications are available". Perhaps that > popup window is causing the screen locker to thing there is something > going on. > > I'm not sure how to capture useful debugging information for something > that isn't happening. Is there a way to query the screen locker and > ask it what it thought happened that prevented it from locking? > > To manage notifications about this bug go to: > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kscreenlocker/+ > bug/1625441/+subscriptions > -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1625441 Title: KDE screen lock intermittent To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/kscreenlocker/+bug/1625441/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
