Bug 242262 – kdeartwork-kscreensaver-4.1.2- screensavr interferes with standby,suspend, power off of monitor

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Genorax 2008-10-15 20:53:07 UTC]

While using KDE 4.1.2, I noticed that my monitor would never power off despite having set that option in the system settings menu.  The screen saver would be on all of the time when the machine was idle.  If, however, I set the power saving items to activate first, then they behave as expected.  i am unsure if the screen saver starts or not after them, because the monitor is then powered down.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set suspend, standby, or power off to 3 minutes
2. Set screen saver to come on after two
3.  Notice that even after an hour you have only screen saver and power savnig features never trigger.  

Actual Results:  
No power off, no suspend, etc just screen saver.

Expected Results:  
Monitor was supposed to turn off after X number of minutes

[Comment 1 Kenyon Ralph 2008-10-23 03:21:22 UTC]

I see the same problem.

If you set the screen saver to NOT activate automatically, then power saving works. In other words, manually locking the screen (which activates the screen saver) with the "Start automatically" option unchecked in KDE's Screen Saver Settings allows the monitor to go into power save mode.

So, for some reason, allowing the screen saver to start automatically after its prescribed time is disabling the ability to enter power saving mode.


USE flags and versions:

kde-base/kscreensaver-4.1.2  USE="opengl pam -debug -kdeprefix"
kde-base/kdeartwork-kscreensaver-4.1.2  USE="opengl xscreensaver -debug -kdeprefix"
x11-misc/xscreensaver-5.05  USE="jpeg opengl pam suid -new-login -xinerama"
kde-base/kdelibs-4.1.2-r1  USE="acl alsa bzip2 doc fam htmlhandbook jpeg2k kerberos mmx nls openexr opengl semantic-desktop spell sse sse2 ssl zeroconf -3dnow (-altivec) -bindist -debug -kdeprefix -test"


info:

Portage 2.2_rc12 (default/linux/x86/2008.0/desktop, gcc-4.1.2, glibc-2.6.1-r0, 2.6.25-gentoo-r8 i686)
=================================================================                                    
System uname: Linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r8-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_2.80GHz-with-glibc2.0            
Timestamp of tree: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 00:45:02 +0000                                                   
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]                                                                         
app-shells/bash:     3.2_p33                                                                         
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.1.6                                                                   
dev-lang/python:     2.5.2-r7                                                                        
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r7                                                                          
dev-util/cmake:      2.6.2                                                                           
sys-apps/baselayout: 1.12.11.1                                                                       
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1-r2                                                                     
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.61-r2                                                                   
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10.1-r1                            
sys-devel/binutils:  2.18-r3                                                                         
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.0-r4                                                                       
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.26                                                                          
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.23-r3
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /var/bind"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/php/apache2-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cli-php5/ext-active/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/udev/rules.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--with-bdeps y"
FEATURES="ccache distlocks fixpackages parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unmerge-orphans userfetch"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.llarian.net/ http://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.chem.wisc.edu/gentoo/ http://mirror.usu.edu/mirrors/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.tera-byte.com/ http://gentoo.cites.uiuc.edu/pub/gentoo/ http://mirror.datapipe.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.tds.net/gentoo http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.osuosl.org"
LANG="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL="en_US.utf8"
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1"
LINGUAS="en"
MAKEOPTS="--jobs=2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS="--progress"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage/layman/science /usr/local/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amr audiofile avahi bash-completion berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cddb cdrchm cli cracklib crypt css cups curl dbus djvu doc dri dvd dvdr dvdread eds emboss encode esd evo exif expat fam ffmpeg fftw firefox flac fontconfig fortran freetype gd gdbm gif ginac glib glitz gmp gnome gnutls gpgme gphoto2 gpm graphviz gs gstreamer gtk gtkhtml hal htmlhandbook hyperestraier iconv icu id3 id3tag idn imagemagick imap ipv6 isdnlog java jbig jpeg jpeg2k kde kdeenablefinal kerberos keyring kpathsea latex lcms ldap libnotify libsamplerate libwww lm_sensors logrotate lua lyx lzo mad midi mikmod mmx mng mp3 mpeg mplayer mudflap musicbrainz ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly offensive ogg openexr opengl openmp pam pch pcre pdf perl plotutils png ppds pppd python qt3 qt3support qt4 quicktime readline real redland reflection rle ruby samba sasl sdl session shout smp smtp sndfile spell spl sqlite sqlite3 sse sse2 ssl startup-notification stream svg symlink sysfs tcpd tetex theora threads tiff truetype unicode upnp usb utempter vim-syntax vnc vorbis win32codecs x86 xcb xcomposite xine xml xorg xpm xscreensaver xv xvid xvmc zeroconf zip zlib" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1" ALSA_PCM_PLUGINS="adpcm alaw asym copy dmix dshare dsnoop empty extplug file hooks iec958 ioplug ladspa lfloat linear meter mmap_emul mulaw multi null plug rate route share shm softvol" APACHE2_MODULES="actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias" ELIBC="glibc" INPUT_DEVICES="keyboard mouse evdev" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LINGUAS="en" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia"
Unset:  CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, FFLAGS, INSTALL_MASK, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS

[Comment 2 Kenyon Ralph 2008-10-23 03:34:08 UTC]

Installing kdeartwork-kscreensaver with USE="-xscreensaver" makes no difference.

[Comment 3 Kenyon Ralph 2008-10-23 03:45:15 UTC]

Here is the KDE bug: https://bugs.kde.org/165368

[Comment 4 Arne Flagge 2009-04-25 16:32:26 UTC]

Fixed upstream in 4.2.1.

[Comment 5 Jonathan Callen (RETIRED) 2009-06-30 11:27:36 UTC]

According to upstream, this was fixed in 4.2.1.  If seen in a later version, please reopen.