On Sat, Mar 09, 2019 at 03:43:09PM -0800, Erich Eickmeyer wrote: > Hi all, > > Sean Davis (bluesabre) did an amazing job and ported mate-screensaver to > xfce4-screensaver. The motivation, as I understand it, is because > light-locker is largely unmaintained and causes a race condition when > resuming from sleep due to the vt change (or something like that, we don't > need to get too technical on this). > > With that, light-locker and xscreensaver are being largely depricated by the > Xubuntu team (who can correct me if I'm wrong... well, anybody can correct > me) in favor of xfce4-screensaver. I think this change, if it needs to > happen in our seeds, needs to happen.
It definitely needs to happen. More and more laptops especially are being shipped with nVidia graphics cards (okay, I don't have real data on this, but the last three I've randomly purchased have this) and they seem to struggle really bad with light-locker. > If you want to test it first, that's good practice. That said, I can say > from personal experience that I have experienced the light-locker race > condition myself, and it's definitely not a good bug to have. You're right, it's really bad to have the GUI restarted after resume from sleep. Kind of defeats the purpose. > With that, I want to say that this change in the seed, if necessary, isn't > as high of a priority, but it would bring some good bug fixes to our default > Xfce desktop. I concur whole-heartedly. I will see if I have time to test it, but seeing that every time I install a new environment, the first thing I do is swap light-locker for xscreensaver. Can't be much worse than that. -- Janne (astraljava) Jokitalo
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