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A small dialog to make it easier for users to modify the settings of lightdm-gtk-greeter.
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Timeout until screen blanks setting does nothing #13

Closed bluesabre closed 4 years ago

bluesabre commented 4 years ago

Test Case: Lubuntu Open LightDM GTK+ Greeter Settings > Misc Adjust Timeout until screen blanks slider to some value, ex. 10 secs

What should happen: greeter screen should blank after 10 secs of inactivity What happens: blank time remains on LightDM default of 300 secs

ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.10 Package: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings 1.2.0-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.2.0-16.19-generic 4.2.3 Uname: Linux 4.2.0-16-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.19.1-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: LXDE Date: Tue Oct 20 06:23:54 2015 InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-10-19 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20151017.1) PackageArchitecture: all ProcEnviron: TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, no user) XDG_RUNTIME_DIR= LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

Launchpad Details: #LP1507983 Doug McMahon - 2015-10-20 10:31:26 +0000

bluesabre commented 4 years ago

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Launchpad Details: #LPC Launchpad Janitor - 2017-01-16 08:12:11 +0000

bluesabre commented 4 years ago

Have same problem with Ubuntu 16.04 with XFCE4 DE. I'm trying to set screensaver-timeout parameter in seconds and it does nothing.

Launchpad Details: #LPC dnord - 2017-01-16 08:22:57 +0000

bluesabre commented 4 years ago

I'm trying to use it with xscreensaver.

Launchpad Details: #LPC dnord - 2017-01-16 08:52:09 +0000

bluesabre commented 4 years ago

@dnord: This has nothing to do with xscreensaver, so not sure in how far that comment is helpful.

Regarding the actual bugreport: the screensaver-timeout setting only takes effect when the greeter is used as a lockscreen. So at login the setting is not honoured at all, instead the system default values are taken. This is also why the behaviour of the greeter will differ between logging out and locking your session with respect to the screensaver.

So I would not categorize this as a bug, because the code is specifically written to work this way. Instead I would consider this a feature request.

Launchpad Details: #LPC Simon Steinbeiß - 2017-11-24 20:12:05 +0000

bluesabre commented 4 years ago

Simon, What is the "system default value" that you mention, and where is it set?

Launchpad Details: #LPC john kuras - 2019-10-30 16:32:46 +0000

bluesabre commented 4 years ago

John, I think the greeter just inherits whatever screen blanking settings the X server started with (and I'm not sure how to change that).

I created a shell script with "xset s 60" in it and set the "greeter-setup-script" option in lightdm.conf to point to that script. That seemed to blank the screen after 60 seconds on the main login screen.

Launchpad Details: #LPC Ryan Tarpine - 2020-01-29 02:51:01 +0000