On Thu, 23 Feb 2023 08:21:01 -0800 Jonathan Ryshpan <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2023-02-22 at 23:20 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote: > > How can I set my system up to start a screen saver after (say) 20 > > minutes, but never lock the screen. > > On Thu, 2023-02-23 at 00:34 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On the bottom left of the Display Modes tab of Xscreensaver > > Preferences, there's a check box labeled Lock Screen After. If it's > > checked,uncheck it. If you're not using Xscreensaver, you should > > have said so. > I am running the standard screen-lock/screen-saver function that comes > with KDE. Maybe it would be better to install xscreensaver, however > the KDE standard controls are integrated with the rest of the KDE > system, which seems to argue for keeping things as they are. > > On Thu, 2023-02-23 at 18:56 +1030, Tim via users wrote: > > My guess would be to look at the screen locking preferences, rather > > than the screensaver choices. Related, but separate actions. > > The only controls that I can find which KDE provides for screen > locking or saving are in: > Start->System Settings->Workspace Behavior->Screen Lockingan > image of which is attached. There seems to be nothing for screen > saving as such. I had thought that doing this would be extremely > easy, but it seems not to be so. > In the configuration screen, wouldn't you just uncheck the first two items? lock screen automatically and after waking from sleep What I take away from that configuration screen is that the screen automatically sleeps. It is strange that there isn't a configuration there that sets the timeout to go to sleep. That seems like a bug. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
