Re: gnome-screensaver

[William Jon McCann <mccann jhu edu>]

Hello Davyd,

Davyd Madeley wrote:
> I see that both Ubuntu Dapper and Fedora Core 5 test 2 are shipping
> with gnome-screensaver now.
>
> Having now used both of them, does it seem slow for anyone else? It
> seems that something has gone astray once or twice and forced me to
> have to change vt and kill the process to get my session back.

I suspect that you may be running into:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=328441

If you think it is something else feel free to open a new bug and we can 
try to track it down.

Also, if you are on a system with a large number of users (>500) you may 
experience problems when running with user switching enabled.  This is 
one reason why it is off by default.  It can be enabled or disabled 
using gconf.

> I didn't manage to get anything useful debugging-wise from it, does
> anyone know the story here?

You can get debugging information from g-s by running it like so:
gnome-screensaver --no-daemon --debug

> If we have a screensaver that you can't get away from, we should
> consider not including this module during this release cycle.

I haven't experienced anything like this but that would indeed be a 
serious problem.  I strongly encourage anyone experiencing such a thing 
to create a bug for it and work with me to solve the problem.

Thanks,
Jon