Bug 163006 - KDE 4.0.4 Screensaver does not start automatically
Summary: KDE 4.0.4 Screensaver does not start automatically
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kscreensaver
Classification: Miscellaneous
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: kscreensaver bugs tracking
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Reported: 2008-06-01 18:05 UTC by Andrea
Modified: 2008-07-27 17:51 UTC (History)
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Description Andrea 2008-06-01 18:05:35 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 4.0.4)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

Description of problem:

The screensaver does not start automatically after X minutes.
I can lock the screen normally.
The screensaver only starts if I explicitly re-apply it, each time I log in KDE,
even if the system-settings says it is already enabled with X minutes delay.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

I'm running Fedora 9, KDE 4.0.4.
Did not notice this issue in KDE 4.0.3

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. enable the screensaver, set X minutes
2. log off KDE
3. log on
  
Actual results:

After X+1 minutes of inactivity the screensave does not start

Expected results:

The screensaver shouls start after X minues of inactivity

Additional info:

If I re apply it, after logging in KDE, then it starts after X minutes of
inactivity.
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2008-06-01 18:31:58 UTC
fwiw, this seems difficult to reproduce (I can't), but there's a not insignificant # of folks seeing this, including mattr (as mentioned on #kde-devel irc the other day), this should be considerred confirmed (imo).

See also:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=448183
Comment 2 Andrea 2008-06-11 20:11:39 UTC
I have just tried KDE 4.0.5 and it seems to work again.
Comment 3 Andrea 2008-06-14 18:50:51 UTC
Spoke too early.
It worked the first day, the it stopped again.
There must be something that gets corrupted after an update (?).
I'm still using xscreensaver (that works) but I'd rather stick to KDE's.

Any help available?
Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2008-06-14 21:05:22 UTC
what video hw/driver are you using? Still ati radeon?
Comment 5 Andrea 2008-06-15 00:21:46 UTC
Same situation.

ati radeon (not fglrx).

01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon RV250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 02)

Fedora updated to the most recent rpms.
Comment 6 Kevin Kofler 2008-07-27 16:00:13 UTC
This has been fixed by Dirk Mueller a month ago.

It is already fixed in:
trunk and 4.1 branch: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=822339
4.0 branch: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=822345
Fedora 9: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewcvs/rpms/kdebase-workspace/F-9/kdebase-workspace-4.0.5-screensaver-xautolock.patch?hideattic=0&rev=1.1&view=markup
Rawhide: since upgrading to 4.0.84 (Rawhide has been tracking 4.1 development for a while)

The first official KDE release with the fix will be 4.1.0.
Comment 7 Oswald Buddenhagen 2008-07-27 17:51:11 UTC
actually, dirk's fix was suboptimal, to put it mildly.
fixed properly for kde 4.2 and 4.1.1.