Re: KVM and screen savers

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William Henry wrote:
> On my F12 laptop I experience the following issue:
> 
> If my cursor is in a KVM instance (RHEL 5) and I leave the machine for a while the Fedora screen saver with lock does not kick in.  That is until I press CTRL-ALT to take focus from the RHEL instance back to my Fedora 12. Then the screen saver kicks in.  
> 
> Apart form being a little annoying it is also probably a security issue. If I want the screen saver to kick-in after 5 or 10 min of idle time and require a password it is probably NOT a good idea for the KVM focus to somehow override this setting.
> 
Interaction between screen saver isn't new, I have it off in the host under most 
of my systems, and use SS in the VM. I'm running KVM, not libvirt stuff.

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