Screensaver unlock screen shown twice after playing video
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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cinnamon-session (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Observed behaviour: resuming from screensaver, after unlocking the screen with a password, the desktop is shown briefly and is immediately locked again, but with a different look-and-feel lock screen. Entering the password once more will finally show the desktop. This started happening seemingly sporadically, and would continue to happen consistently until end of session (logout or shutdown).
Digging further, it was found that a `gnome-screensaver` process was running in addition to the normal `cinnamon-
Finally, the culprit was found in the journal for that unit (`dbus.service`):
Nov 12 15:03:40 laptop dbus-daemon[1696]: [session uid=1000 pid=1696] Activating service name='org.
So, the workaround (which I am quite happy with, frankly) is to use VLC instead of Totem. ☺
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.04
Package: cinnamon-session 3.6.1-1
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 4.15.0-38-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.9-0ubuntu7.4
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: X-Cinnamon
Date: Tue Nov 13 08:56:37 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2018-10-31 (12 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS "Bionic Beaver" - Release amd64 (20180725)
SourcePackage: cinnamon-session
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
no longer affects: | totem (Ubuntu) |
This is where my technical knowledge is reaching its current boundaries. Based on what I saw in this Arch forum thread[1], it seems possible to block certain services from starting up in `/usr/share/ glib-2. 0/schemas/ org.cinnamon. SessionManager. gschema. xml`. There is an `autostart- blacklist` key, but maybe there is also a way to block Totem from requesting `org.gnome. ScreenSaver` even at a later point?
[1] https:/ /bbs.archlinux. org/viewtopic. php?pid= 1706725# p1706725