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QuadRazor

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Registered: 2020-02-20

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XFCE Desktop Enviornment in Black Screen After Login (Screensaver)

Hi there, so whenever I relogin to my user account on Arch Linux, all I see is a black screen, this only happens when my Linux system idles, is there anyway to solve this?

Desktop Environment: Xfce(as you can tell by the title)
Display Manager:lightdm

Last edited by QuadRazor (2020-02-20 20:31:13)

V1del

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Re: XFCE Desktop Enviornment in Black Screen After Login (Screensaver)

What's your output in [ code ] [ /code ] tags without the spaces of

hostnamectl
loginctl session-status

QuadRazor

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Registered: 2020-02-20

Posts: 4

Re: XFCE Desktop Enviornment in Black Screen After Login (Screensaver)

Note: hostname and username retracted for privacy reasons

5 - (retracted) (1000)
           Since: Mon 2020-02-24 17:52:25 EST; 3min 12s ago
          Leader: 2555 (lightdm)
            Seat: seat0; vc7
         Display: :0
         Service: lightdm; type x11; class user
         Desktop: xfce
           State: active
            Unit: session-5.scope
                  ├─2555 lightdm --session-child 14 23
                  ├─2569 xfce4-session
                  ├─2617 /usr/bin/ssh-agent -s
                  ├─2622 xfwm4
                  ├─2628 xfsettingsd
                  ├─2629 xfce4-panel
                  ├─2635 Thunar --daemon
                  ├─2646 xfdesktop
                  ├─2649 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/>
                  ├─2650 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/>
                  ├─2660 jami-gnome --restore-last-window-state
                  ├─2669 xfce4-screensaver
                  ├─2676 /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agen>
                  ├─2677 xfce4-power-manager
                  ├─2762 /usr/lib/WebKitWebProcess 6 23
                  ├─2763 /usr/lib/WebKitNetworkProcess 7 23
                  ├─2800 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
                  ├─2865 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 1 -isFo>
                  ├─2941 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 3 -isFo>
                  ├─2977 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 4 -isFo>
                  ├─3090 /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal
                  ├─3095 bash
                  ├─3099 hostnamectl
                  ├─3100 loginctl session-status
                  └─3101 less

Feb 24 17:52:25 (retracted hostname) systemd[1]: Started Session 5 of user (retracted).
Feb 24 17:52:33 (retracted hostname) jami-gnome[2660]: QDBusConnection: name 'cx.ring.Ring'>
lines 15-37/37 (END)
                  ├─2629 xfce4-panel
                  ├─2635 Thunar --daemon
                  ├─2646 xfdesktop
                  ├─2649 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libsystray.so 6 14680071 systray Notif>
                  ├─2650 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0 /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libpulseaudio-plugin.so 8 14680072 pul>
                  ├─2660 jami-gnome --restore-last-window-state
                  ├─2669 xfce4-screensaver
                  ├─2676 /usr/lib/polkit-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1
                  ├─2677 xfce4-power-manager
                  ├─2762 /usr/lib/WebKitWebProcess 6 23
                  ├─2763 /usr/lib/WebKitNetworkProcess 7 23
                  ├─2800 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox
                  ├─2865 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 1 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 1 -prefMapSize 214995 -pare>
                  ├─2941 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 3 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 7543 -prefMapSize 214995 -p>
                  ├─2977 /usr/lib/firefox/firefox -contentproc -childID 4 -isForBrowser -prefsLen 7543 -prefMapSize 214995 -p>
                  ├─3090 /usr/bin/xfce4-terminal
                  ├─3095 bash
                  ├─3099 hostnamectl
                  ├─3100 loginctl session-status
                  └─3101 less

Feb 24 17:52:25 (retracted hostname) systemd[1]: Started Session 5 of user (retracted).
Feb 24 17:52:33 (retracted hostname) jami-gnome[2660]: QDBusConnection: name 'cx.ring.Ring' had owner '' but we thought it was ':1.33'
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V1del

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Posts: 25,399

Re: XFCE Desktop Enviornment in Black Screen After Login (Screensaver)

Please use [ code ] rather than [ quote ] tags.

You seem to have a session and a valid hostname what's your graphics hardware?

sudo journalctl -b #or maybe run a sudo journalctl -f and post the output generated from that when reproducing the issue

after logging back in?

seth

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Re: XFCE Desktop Enviornment in Black Screen After Login (Screensaver)

relogin

only happens when my Linux system idles

Does that mean when you unlock the screensaver after a S3 (sleep, suspend to ram)?
Try to disable the compositor: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xf … te_manager

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paulkerry

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Registered: 2014-10-02

Posts: 611

Re: XFCE Desktop Enviornment in Black Screen After Login (Screensaver)

Following @seth's query, if you are just unlocking the screensaver after it has triggered, your output shows you have xfce4-screensaver and xfce4-power-manager running.
You could try disabling one or the other as both together could be controlling the screen blanking at the same time?
xfce menu - "power manager - {display tab} - display power management" and move the slider to off.

Have you tried xscreensaver instead of xfce4-screensaver or just the xfce power manager on it's own?

Last edited by paulkerry (2020-02-26 21:46:11)