On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 1:49 PM, Thayer Williams <thay...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Anselm R Garbe <garb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 2008/12/9 Ali Gholami Rudi <aliqr...@gmail.com>: >>> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 04:00:48PM -0800, Thayer Williams wrote: >>>> I've been using slock for about two months now and, as per the >>>> subject, slock doesn't release my screen right away after a valid >>>> password entry. After inputing the password and pressing Enter, the >>>> screen remains blanked and no amount of input brings it up. I can >>>> actually see the LCD backlight flicking on and off with each >>>> subsequent keypress or mouse wiggle. >>> >>> I don't know how to handle others, but I use this patch for handling the >>> flickering problem. AFAIK turning a lamp on and off excessively >>> decreases its lifetime; that might be true for displays, too. > > Ali, thanks for that! This works great and I like the fact that I can > customise the timeout values. It's too early to say for sure, but it > also looks like your patch fixed my input issues (though I'm not sure > how that could be). I've been using it for a few hours now and > haven't encountered any problems yet.
I just wanted to report that for whatever reason, Ali your patch does fix the slock unresponsiveness I mentioned in my initial post. Thanks again for that.
