lock screen does not power off the monitor anymore with 4.20

olh · 2025-10-24 21:06:42

I upgraded "the XFCE rpm packages" from earlier versions of their 4.20 branch to the latest versions of their 4.20 branch. While everything appears to run smooth, I noticed one regression:

The panel may have a knob to "lock the screen" in the corner. This used to turn the screens black, then after 5 seconds the monitors were powered off. Now with the new packages only the screens goes black, but the monitors remain powered on. I poked around in the power settings, to see if powering off the monitors is broken. But if I set the timeout to the lowest possible value (1 minute), the monitors are powered off as expected and the screen lock is active.

The questions I have are:
What components are involved in that "lock the screen" knob? Is it just the xfce-screensaver that is started, or is something else involved?
What components are involved when the power settings timeout kick in, and the monitors are turned off? Is that xfwm4 which does that, or is it xfdesktop?

This is on an openSUSE Leap 15.6 system (well, actually SP7, but that detail may not matter) with X11.

ToZ · 2025-10-25 00:05:55

What does the following return?

ps -ef | grep -E 'locker|saver'

Also, how did you upgrade the packages to the 4.20 branch?

olh · 2025-10-28 14:32:14

xfce4-screensaver is active, the packages where updated with "zypper dup".

It seems on Leap 16.0 with X11 the issue does not exist, I need to double check on a clean installation.

Added later 6 h 33 min 46 s:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-scre … issues/182

Looks like xfce4-screensaver 4.18 might be required if one wants or needs to use X11.

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lock screen does not power off the monitor anymore with 4.20

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Re: lock screen does not power off the monitor anymore with 4.20

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Re: lock screen does not power off the monitor anymore with 4.20

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