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From: cothrige on 26 Jun 2010 22:10 I recently installed Debian Testing on my laptop, an HP dv6-1355dx, which had been running Ubuntu. Once I got past the missing wireless tools and drivers things have been pretty smooth. However, there is an oddity in GDM regarding screen locking which I cannot seem to figure out. With the default settings, using gnome-power-manager, whenever I close the lid the computer suspends and the screen locks. However, when I open the screen it does not give me a password box or any such thing, but rather the screen is just black. This persists until I manually switch to a console and back to F7 or F8, whichever is running X, and only then will the expected password box appear. I have looked through the seemingly related settings but can find nothing which seems wrong or unexpected. I have currently turned off the screen-locking selection in the screensaver settings which keeps things from locking up, in both ways, and so does not ask for a password. This is okay, though I would rather like to have things working in the optimal way. Thanks very much for any ideas. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87bpaxcjpp.fsf(a)gmail.com
From: Rob Owens on 27 Jun 2010 10:40 On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:06:42PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > I recently installed Debian Testing on my laptop, an HP dv6-1355dx, > which had been running Ubuntu. Once I got past the missing wireless > tools and drivers things have been pretty smooth. However, there is an > oddity in GDM regarding screen locking which I cannot seem to figure > out. > > With the default settings, using gnome-power-manager, whenever I close > the lid the computer suspends and the screen locks. However, when I > open the screen it does not give me a password box or any such thing, > but rather the screen is just black. This persists until I manually > switch to a console and back to F7 or F8, whichever is running X, and > only then will the expected password box appear. > Have you tried hitting a key or wiggling the mouse, instead of switching to a console and back? > I have looked through the seemingly related settings but can find > nothing which seems wrong or unexpected. I have currently turned off > the screen-locking selection in the screensaver settings which keeps > things from locking up, in both ways, and so does not ask for a > password. This is okay, though I would rather like to have things > working in the optimal way. > There's always xscreensaver. You could use that instead. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100627143551.GA30243(a)aurora.owens.net
From: cothrige on 27 Jun 2010 13:30
Rob Owens <rowens(a)ptd.net> writes: > Have you tried hitting a key or wiggling the mouse, instead of switching > to a console and back? > Yes, without effect. So far the only action which seems to make a difference is to switch to a console and back. > There's always xscreensaver. You could use that instead. > I have considered doing that, and maybe will. I suppose the thing that bugs me is just that the default setup is not working, and I would like to figure out why. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87wrtkl7el.fsf(a)gmail.com |