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 (id
est, 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 tell
dnf 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 and
remove 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 KVM
switch??

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>

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George N. White III