Re: [dwm] [slock] slock doesn't like to deactivate after password entry
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.
Re: [dwm] [slock] slock doesn't like to deactivate after password entry
On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 4:48 AM, Anselm R Garbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/12/9 Ali Gholami Rudi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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. Cheers
[dwm] [slock] slock doesn't like to deactivate after password entry
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. If I wait 3-5 seconds and then press a key or bump the mouse, it finally comes back on, but I do have to wait 3-5 seconds with absolutely no input activity in order for this happen. I'm sure this can't be the expected behaviour. I'm running Arch Linux with xorg-server v1.5.3 on an ATI X1400 (catalyst driver) in case that has any bearing. I normally start slock via xautolock, however I can reproduce this when starting slock manually. Haven't seen anyone else posting about this, so I thought I'd toss it out there. Cheers
