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A simple session-locker for lightdm
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Painful "You'll be redirected to the unlock dialog in a few seconds" - Does it have to be there? #126

Open davelindquist opened 5 years ago

davelindquist commented 5 years ago

The new light-locker seems to have implemented a very painful dialog + delay -- when you switch to a session that is locked, you get:

This session is locked
You'll be redirected to the unlock 
dialog automatically in a few seconds.

This delay (before the unlock dialog comes up) is PAINFUL; several seconds of wait time. Is there a reason that this has to be there? The older versions did not have this; why was this delay added? Can it be removed, or configured out?

Thanks very much!

psjbeisler commented 5 years ago

this pegs my SSD and rarely recovers even. I end up having to reboot and finally just uninstalled it before it killed my hardware...

adrhc commented 5 years ago

did you tried CTRL + ALT + F7?

davelindquist commented 5 years ago

Yeah, CTRL - ALT - F7 is an easy way to make this happen.

It seems like it's doing something weird like:

But this is just a rough hypothesis.

Can anyone explain exactly what is going on, and why this message is needed? (light-locker never used to do this -- how did it work before?)

Thanks!

psjbeisler commented 5 years ago

my keyboard wouldnt even work, it was almost like a kernel panic, I just stopped using it all together...

micw commented 4 years ago

Hello, I haven't seen that issue for months after I did a freh install of archlinux. But a few days ago,it reappeared. Switching VTs does not help :-(

micw commented 4 years ago

I give up with light-locker. That "something is broken after suspend" kills my whole prodoctivity.

My current workaround is:

This gives me a working setup where I get a lightdm greeter screen after suspend or when I manually lock the screen.

foresto commented 4 years ago

+1

See also: #94

Zeioth commented 4 years ago

I can confirm, the issue is back. See #146 I'm downgrading systemd by now.

EDIT: For those on arch, replacing arch mirrors by manjaro mirrors is an easy fix (and a way to prevent future issues)

malteger commented 4 years ago

My current workaround is:

  • removed light-locker from system
  • Changed the lock command: xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /general/LockCommand -s "dm-tool switch-to-greeter"
  • Enabled Lock-On-Syspend: xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /shutdown/LockScreen -t bool -s true --create

This gives me a working setup where I get a lightdm greeter screen after suspend or when I manually lock the screen.

@micw For me this workaround left the session unlocked, ctrl + alt + F7 just switches back to the desktop

micw commented 4 years ago

The lock-on-suspend stopped to work for me after I rebootet. The "dm-tool switch-to-greeter" still works. You can test it by just issuing the command. I switched to xfce4-screensaver now which simply works.

petrmanek commented 4 years ago

After a recent update, I'm also getting this bug. Running light-locker 1.8.0-2 with systemd 243.51-1 on arch (5.3.1.arch1-1). My current workaround is not to run light-locker at all.

Laurencio commented 4 years ago

I have this issue too. on Mx Linux 18.3. That dialog appears and lies because no matter how long you wait it will still be there. I have to Ctrl+Shift+Backspace to restart session.

vedavrat commented 2 years ago

I have this issue too on GarudaLinux (ArchLinux) after Suspend. To have the access to XFCE, I have to kill (-9) light-locker from Ctrl-Alt-F2 terminal (VT)...

light-locker 1.9.0-4 (community) Linux 5.16.0-zen1-1-zen ZEN SMP PREEMPT 10 Jan 2022 20:12 OS: Garuda Linux x86_64 1.4 Soaring (White-tailed-eagle) DE: Xfce 4.16 WM: Xfwm4 WM Theme: Default Theme: Prof-XFCE-2.1 CPU: Intel i7-2620M (4) @ 3.400GHz GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M 1920x1080

DarkLight5668 commented 1 year ago

this pegs my SSD and rarely recovers even. I end up having to reboot and finally just uninstalled it before it killed my hardware...

It can kill hardware? I also got session locked idk what to do

DarkLight5668 commented 1 year ago

did you tried CTRL + ALT + F7?

I did this and my session got locked what should I do?

alejandro-colomar commented 6 months ago

Still a problem on Debian Sid.

$ dpkg -l | grep light-locker
ii  light-locker                          1.8.0-3                                   amd64        simple screen locker for lightDM display manager
ig3 commented 4 weeks ago

Still occurring on Debian 12/bookworm

light-locker/stable,now 1.8.0-3 amd64 [installed,automatic]