On Mon, 20 Feb 2023 11:13:58 -0800 Jamie Zawinski <j...@jwz.org> wrote: > On Feb 20, 2023, at 9:44 AM, Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > It turns out that the DEACTIVATEs were being sent by the Xfce Power > > Manager's Presentation Mode. I'm not sure I was even aware of that > > mode's existence, but it apparently has a long history of becoming > > turned on without the conscious intention or awareness of the user :) > > Good to know! > > So, it sounds like you were seeing XFCE invoking "xscreensaver-command > -deactivate" directly, is that right? That would have been happening here: > > https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/-/blob/2969f0b1ddb60ccda2989c6da6977ab51c75dfd7/src/xfce-screensaver.c#L122 > > However it looks like that's a fallback, and first it would have tried to > connect to DBus, meaning you should have seen diagnostics from > xscreensaver-systemd instead: > > https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/-/blob/2969f0b1ddb60ccda2989c6da6977ab51c75dfd7/src/xfce-screensaver.c#L233 > > Is xscreensaver-systemd not running for you?
It's running: ~$ ps ax | grep xscree 145156 pts/6 S 0:35 xscreensaver -v -v -v --log /home/username/xsvr-log 145158 pts/6 S 0:00 xscreensaver-systemd --verbose 242602 pts/6 S+ 0:00 grep xscree I don't know whether I'm seeing "xscreensaver-command -deactivate" or xscreensaver-systemd diagnostics. Where should I look for these? The xscreensaver log just contains lines of the form: xscreensaver: nn:nn:nn: ClientMessage DEACTIVATE: already inactive, resetting activity time I don't see any mentions of "xscreensaver-command -deactivate" or systemd. Should I be looking somewhere else? Thanks for the help, and thanks for your work on xscreensaver! -- Celejar