Le Mon, May 08, 2023 at 11:22:28PM +0100, Laurence Tratt a écrit : > On Mon, May 08, 2023 at 07:04:10PM +0200, Landry Breuil wrote: > > Hello Landry, > > >> Installing meta/xfce installs xfce4-screensaver. However, > >> xfce4-screensaver seems to have the unfortunate behaviour of messing with > >> the user's X screensaver settings, even when the screensaver is disabled > >> in XFCE. This caused me a certain amount of head-scratching when my > >> `.xsession` loaded `xidle` but no matter what idle times I used, another > >> timeout was used -- which, AFAICS, is the timeout set by > >> xfce4-screensaver. In other words, `xidle -timeout <n>` did not respect > >> `n`, although `xidle` did still run its sub-command (just at a timeout > >> other than `n`). > > what do you mean by "screensaver is disabled in XFCE" ? process not > > running, process running, disabled how/where ? > > The screensaver is (was...) not enabled in Settings > Screensaver and I also > disabled it in Settings > Session & Startup -- yet, I eventually realised, > there always seemed to be an xfce4-screensaver process running. I can't rule > out that I did something stupid in some way, but I don't tend to do a great > deal of configuration with XFCE.
can you check whether it's "saved in the session" if you use session saving ? grep screensa .cache/sessions/* Landry
