On Mon, 8 Apr 2013 06:52:04 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > On Sun, 7 Apr 2013 19:45:43 -0700, Richard Vickery wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > It happens often enough that I leave the computer long enough for it to > > > blacken the screen. Is there a combination key stroke to get x back? > > > > Do you mean your computer is frozen (crashed) when that happens? > > Else it's the screen blanker, and you could simply move the mouse or use > > the keyboard, and the system would detect that as activity. > > It can't simply be crashed every time I simply leave it? Why not? That's what can happen with bugs in the software. I've encountered it too with F19 development (and ATI Radeon graphics). Visiting "Settings > Power" in GNOME Shell, I disabled the screen blanker (set it to "Never") or else I would return to the machine and fit it with the monitor in power-saving mode and with no way to wake it up. It's not supposed to be like that. It's misbehaviour. A bug somewhere. Currently, everything is fine again. In other words, people in this thread have misunderstood eachother. "Locking" the screen does not refer to freezing the machine or crashing X but just to displaying a passphrase prompt after you've left the machine unattended for some time. That can be separate from the screen blanker (or screen saver) activity. Neither should make your system unusable. That's a bug. -- Fedora release 19 (Schrödinger’s Cat) - Linux 3.9.0-0.rc5.git1.301.fc19.x86_64 loadavg: 0.14 0.17 0.15 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
