On Wed, Aug 30, 2023 at 12:37 PM Beartooth Beartooth@comcast.net wrote:
On Wed, 30 Aug 2023 13:20:50 +0930, Tim via users wrote:
On Mon, 2023-08-28 at 19:09 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
One of my F38 machines has taken to demanding that I login over and over. I want not to have to login at all. (I'm the sole user, and at home.) Fwiw, I'm running xscreensaver under Mate. Where and how do I reconfigure?
I 'spose we should confirm, do you mean the screen saver is kicking in and you have to unlock it. Or are you getting logged out?
I'm actually getting logged out; I have to give my username (idest, confirm the default) and type my password every time.
Kernel.org has been working clean up power management, see https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/power/apm-acpi.html. Buggy ACPI implementations have been causing problems with wake from sleep, etc. Some vendors have firmware updates that may help. Are all your machines the same?
Some xscreensavers were known to crash the display.
I've never seen that happen. My practice after installing every new release has been to telldnf first to remove mate-screensaver and then to install xscreensaver. The latter is still working fine on the other two machines in front of me.
I've just reversed that: told dnf to install mate-screensaver andremove xscreensaver. I found out immediately that the former doesn't let me manage my screen in any of the ways I want.
Would it help to reboot? Could there be a problem with my KVMswitch??
Easy to test by taking KVM switch out the loop -- there have been issues with the EDID getting corrupted on resume from sleep. See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/admin-guide/edid.html