Shut off screenlock.

Peter Terpstra · External Since: Jul 25, 2009 Posts: 4

Dear readers,
I have here Suse 11.1, with KDE4 (4.2), with an irritating screenlock.
In systemsettings at tab screensaver I have unchecked "ask for password" but
it does not, also when I uncheck "start automatically" nor the screensaver nor
the screenlock will listen.

Any help?

Kind Regards,

Peter

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Eef Hartman · External Since: Jul 12, 2009 Posts: 11

Peter Terpstra wrote:
> Dear readers,
> I have here Suse 11.1, with KDE4 (4.2), with an irritating screenlock.
> In systemsettings at tab screensaver I have unchecked "ask for password" but
> it does not, also when I uncheck "start automatically" nor the screensaver nor
> the screenlock will listen.

Do the command "ps -ef|grep screensaver" in a terminal window.

If you see either
xscreensaver
or
gnome-screensaver

you're NOT using the KDE screensaver but another one, which is NOT
controlled from the KDE Control center.

I haven't found out how kdm decides "which one to start" yet, but here
in a normal full KDE/KDM session I do get the gnome-screensaver instead
of the KDE one.

xscreensaver is controlled by the screensaver-demo program, the gnome
one probably from one of the gnome settings programs.
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Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT

Peter Terpstra · External Since: Jul 25, 2009 Posts: 4

Eef Hartman in <32108$4a6c3c42$83b42a35$23690@news1.tudelft.nl> :

> Do the command "ps -ef|grep screensaver" in a terminal window.
>
> If you see either
> xscreensaver
> or
> gnome-screensaver

peter@sanga:0>ps -ef|grep screensaver
peter 5950 5939 0 12:43 pts/2 00:00:00 grep screensaver

None of them.

Kind regards,

Peter

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Peter Terpstra · External Since: Jul 25, 2009 Posts: 4

Peter Terpstra in <6098338.T7Z3S40VBb@dharma> :

> peter@sanga:0>ps -ef|grep screensaver
> peter 5950 5939 0 12:43 pts/2 00:00:00 grep screensaver
>
> None of them.

Because this screenlock is very Irritating i hope this can be solved.

With kind regards,

Peter

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DenverD · External Since: Jul 26, 2009 Posts: 19

> Because this screenlock is very Irritating i hope this can be solved.

i don't have 11.1 or KDE4.x but i think i remember something about the
power savings settings and/or personal settings and/or YaST settings
have to ALL agree..

with google i found these maybe maybe helpful threads (there are others):
http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/409516-solved-problem-screen-s...r-lock.
http://forums.opensuse.org/applications/409447-kde4-screen-lock-problem.html

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Eef Hartman · External Since: Jul 12, 2009 Posts: 11

Peter Terpstra wrote:
> peter@sanga:0>ps -ef|grep screensaver
> peter 5950 5939 0 12:43 pts/2 00:00:00 grep screensaver
>
> None of them.

Ok, when you run
rpm -qa |grep screens
which one(s) of the following do you see
kdeartwork3-kscreensaver-3.5.10-1.62
kdeartwork3-xscreensaver-3.5.10-1.62
kdeartwork4-screensaver-4.1.3-1.26
xscreensaver-5.07-6.41
gnome-screensaver-2.24.0-7.7
(note especially the difference between the first two, it is only one
char) do you see?

kdeartwork4-screensaver-4.1.3-1.26
I do not know of myself, we do NOT use kde 4 here yet at all,
but you can see that onlike kde3 there are no two versions anymore,
just the one "screensaver", while kde3 made a difference between
"kscreensaver" and "xscreensaver".
But anyway, whatever you see you may try to UNinstall it.

In kde 3 it is kdesktop_lock that does the actual locking
(located in /opt/kde3/bin), which is in the kdebase3 package,
but the screensave "activates" it.
This may be different in KDE 4, though.
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Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT

Peter Terpstra · External Since: Jul 25, 2009 Posts: 4

Eef Hartman in <6b174$4a718cd5$83b42a35$23061@news1.tudelft.nl> :

> Ok, when you run
> rpm -qa |grep screens
> which one(s) of the following do you see
> kdeartwork3-kscreensaver-3.5.10-1.62
> kdeartwork3-xscreensaver-3.5.10-1.62
> kdeartwork4-screensaver-4.1.3-1.26
> xscreensaver-5.07-6.41
> gnome-screensaver-2.24.0-7.7
> (note especially the difference between the first two, it is only one
> char) do you see?
> kdeartwork4-screensaver-4.1.3-1.26
> I do not know of myself, we do NOT use kde 4 here yet at all,
> but you can see that onlike kde3 there are no two versions anymore,
> just the one "screensaver", while kde3 made a difference between
> "kscreensaver" and "xscreensaver".
> But anyway, whatever you see you may try to UNinstall it.
>
> In kde 3 it is kdesktop_lock that does the actual locking
> (located in /opt/kde3/bin), which is in the kdebase3 package,
> but the screensave "activates" it.
> This may be different in KDE 4, though.

prompt>rpmqpack|grep screens
kdeartwork4-screensaver

prompt>rpm -e kdeartwork4-screensaver
prompt>

Thanks!!

Peter

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Skippyboy · External Since: May 15, 2007 Posts: 2

On Jul 25, 11:15 am, Peter Terpstra <pe... DeleteThis @dharma.dyn-o-saur.invalid>
wrote:
> Dear readers,
> I have here Suse 11.1, with KDE4 (4.2), with an irritating screenlock.
> In systemsettings at tab screensaver I have unchecked "ask for password" but
> it does not, also when I uncheck "start automatically" nor the screensaver nor
> the screenlock will listen.
>
> Any help?
>
> Kind Regards,
>
> Peter
>
> --
> mailto:pe...@dharma.dyn-o-saur.com

I was seeing the same issue in KDE4.3 It turns out it was actually
KPowerSave that was doing it on my system. I right clicked the little
"power-plug" icon in my system tray, and clicked Configure KPowerSave.

Then I unchecked the part about the screensaver, and on the Options
tab, under screen lock, there was another box to uncheck. Now - no
more screen saver, or screen lock unless I lock it.

Hope that helps.