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  • Is it possible that migrating from 11 to 12 changed the display manager

    From Cecil Westerhof@Cecil@decebal.nl to alt.os.linux.debian on Tue Aug 29 16:23:19 2023
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    Before I upgraded to 12 my screensaver did not kick in when playing a
    video with mpv. But now it does.
    If I remember well I had this problem before, but solved it by
    changing the display manager.
    Could the upgrade have changed the display manager?
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    Cecil Westerhof
    Senior Software Engineer
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  • From Marco Moock@mo01@posteo.de to alt.os.linux.debian on Tue Aug 29 20:48:51 2023
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    Am 29.08.2023 um 16:23:19 Uhr schrieb Cecil Westerhof:

    Before I upgraded to 12 my screensaver did not kick in when playing a
    video with mpv. But now it does.
    If I remember well I had this problem before, but solved it by
    changing the display manager.
    Could the upgrade have changed the display manager?

    Maybe.
    Which did you use before and which now?
    Did the screensaver application change?

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  • From Cecil Westerhof@Cecil@decebal.nl to alt.os.linux.debian on Tue Aug 29 21:42:25 2023
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    Marco Moock <mo01@posteo.de> writes:

    Am 29.08.2023 um 16:23:19 Uhr schrieb Cecil Westerhof:

    Before I upgraded to 12 my screensaver did not kick in when playing a
    video with mpv. But now it does.
    If I remember well I had this problem before, but solved it by
    changing the display manager.
    Could the upgrade have changed the display manager?

    Maybe.
    Which did you use before and which now?

    I am not completely sure. To be honest I doubt it changed because the
    timestamp of /etc/X11/default-display-manager is in 2018 and contains /usr/sbin/lxdm. Which I thought it was previously. Also the timestamp
    of /etc/lxdm/lxdm.conf is in 2016.
    With ps I see that /usr/sbin/lxdm-binary is running.
    My desktop is xfce4, but I use (and think I used) lxdm as display
    manager. But because I needed to change the display manager to not get
    a screen lock while watching a video I was wondering.


    Did the screensaver application change?

    It is xscreensaver and I am pretty sure it was xscreensaver.
    What I do find strange that the height and width of the unlock dialog
    both have become about two times as big.
    (Much to big in my opinion.)
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    Cecil Westerhof
    Senior Software Engineer
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  • From Marco Moock@mo01@posteo.de to alt.os.linux.debian on Wed Aug 30 21:13:45 2023
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    Am 29.08.2023 um 21:42:25 Uhr schrieb Cecil Westerhof:

    It is xscreensaver and I am pretty sure it was xscreensaver.
    What I do find strange that the height and width of the unlock dialog
    both have become about two times as big.

    Maybe xscreensaver changed from Motif to GTK.
    GTK3 is really, really huge in the default design, I dunno if that is a
    bug.

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