[mythtv-users] Problem with SVN changeset 24559 - xdg-screensaver

Tom Lichti redpepperracing at gmail.com
Wed May 12 22:37:40 UTC 2010


On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 5:52 PM, Johnny Walker <johnnyjboss at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 4:24 PM, Tom Lichti <redpepperracing at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Is anyone else having issues with this change? I get a ton of these in the logs:
>>
>> 2010-05-12 16:56:30.269 ScreenSaverXDG: Calling xdg-screensaver reset
>> 2010-05-12 16:56:30.437 ScreenSaverXDG: Calling xdg-screensaver reset
>>
>> and there is a problem with playback, if you pause, or bring up the
>> menu, the playback screen gets screwed up (it's like a screen door is
>> placed over the screen) and will not go away. If you pause playback,
>> the effect goes away, in that you can now see the screen, but when you
>> un-pause it it goes back to the screen door effect. At first I thought
>> it was because I didn't have a screen saver setup (I think it was
>> using a built in xfce one), so I installed xscreensaver, but there is
>> no change.
>
> Have you installed xdg-utils?

It's there, yes.

>
> It's like the feature does the opposite of what is
>> intended. The only way to fix it is to exit the recording and start
>> playing again.
>>
>> I'm going to revert the change, just to make sure that's actually the
>> problem, but it's sure suspicious.
>>
>
>
> What distro and version are you in?

Fedora Core 10.

I reverted the change and everything works correctly now.

Tom


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