Ok, forget about this.efrpcabo wrote:More feedback:
- everything keeps going just fine
- no more crashes, not even one
One correction to my above reply!
This is wrong:If you set Power Manager like this, it will prevent Xscreensaver to lock the screen.efrpcabo wrote: To do that, set this setting like this:
XFCE Power Manager, Security, automatically lock the session: never
I believe Xscreensaver overrides Xscreensaver on this.
Instead, consider this:
To do that, set this setting like this:
XFCE Power Manager, Display, Blank after: [define here a time period bigger than the one set in the "Screensaver"]
XFCE Power Manager, Security, automatically lock the session: "When the screensaver is ativated" [this is only necessary to avoid choosing "Never"]
Example:
Set the lock screen in Power Manager to 60 minutes.
Set the lock screen in Xscreensaver to blank after 55 minutes and lock after 1 minute.
The lock screen will be effective at 56 minutes.
The important thing here is NOT to let the Power Manager lock the screen, by setting the Xscreensaver to lock it first.
Sorry about the extensive posts and somewhat confusion throughout this thread.
The reason for it is because this took me several days to figure out, and many minutes to wait and see if the screensaver would work or a crash would happen.
And as I was doing it, I tried to register everything, so I would lose track on changes, or forget what I did and what I hadn't already done.
I wrote this because I went at my computer and the screen wasn't locked, so I thought Xscreensaver hadn't worked and thought the reason was the above.
However, I have just finished tested it again like before (with Power Manager set to Never) and it worked.
To be exact, in fact, it worked with both options in that tab:
- automatically lock the session: "When the screensaver is ativated": on
- automatically lock the session: "When the screensaver is ativated": off
So the reason to the screen not being locked had to be another.
After reading the texts below, in my case maybe the cause was:
- I am running Xscreensaver 5.42 (the present version in Debian 10 Buster as of today) instead of 5.43;
- ou being logged as root with some app (sometimes I use Thunar or Mousepad to edit some system file), but I don't remember that at that time.
I got these ideas from the Xscreensaver documentation, points 6, 7, 8 and 26 here:
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html
The point 26 mentions Laptop, but I'm on a Desktop.
So, just in case, now every time I go away from my computer, I just hit Ctr-Alt-Del to start Xscreensaver.
Or maybe I will just wait and see if it becomes unlocked again and try to see the cause for that when it happens.
