Fighting with the screensaver.

[Martin S.]

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 17:38 +0100, Lars Tore Gustavsen wrote:
> First I wonder if I'm the only person now who fights with the lut
> deletion with gnome-screensaver.
> It almost look like it is fixed, but I have still have this problem
> with ubuntu 9.10.
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342850

This is somewhat old. I remember working on that bug myself as it was
annoying for both gnome-screensaver and xscreensaver if I had profiles
set.

However, the issue was clearly fixed and I did't see this anymore on a
range of systems since then (nvidia, intel mostly).

> Should I expect the color manager to take care of this on it own? Like
> running some kind of services?
> When I use dispwin from the argyll package I normally  take care of
> this with a desktop file in the autostart folder with an exec line
> like this.
> Exec=/bin/bash -c ’ gnome-screensaver-command –exit;
>  dispwin -L;gnome-screensaver’

This is not the right solution afaik. Applications should not fiddle
with the color profile settings unless they are created to do just that.

If you are sure gnome-screensaver causes it please file a bug.
gnome-screensaver must respect the LUT settings here (the code
apparently does already...).

As noted above, this works fine on a couple of systems I tested for
2.28.

What gfx driver do you use and which component versions (xorg, driver,
gnome-screensaver?

--- Martin S.