Chromium triggers xfce4-screensaver

hb860 · 2020-03-14 07:34:10

Hello, I have a strange issue. After updating Chromium to 80.0.3987.132 (Official Build) Arch Linux (64-bit), every time I open a save dialog, e.g. right-click on an image on a web page --> save as, it starts xfce4-screensaver, which I have to dismiss to continue.
This is very annoying. Any idea what it can be?
Running Xfce 4 as my DE.
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Update: It affects the chromium-based Vivaldi too. Must be something global, related to, let's say, the recent GTK3/Gnome update, or xfce4-power-manager. I will try to rollback those updates using solutions from the appropriate topic in here.

Last edited by hb860 (2020-03-14 08:05:27)

hb860 · 2020-03-14 08:08:45

It is indeed a bug in xfce4-power-manager.
Downgrading the package seems to solve the issue.

# pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xfce4-power-manager-1.6.5-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Serabob · 2020-03-15 20:29:29

Heay,

i had the same issue on websites with embedded video/gifs/moving stuff. Downgrading xfce4-screensaver from 0.1.8-2 to 0.1.7-1 resolved this on my machine.

banana_pancakes · 2020-03-21 10:56:56

Thanks for posting the fix, @hb860 - the downgrade also resolved my issue. Strange one indeed. It also affected other apps that embed chromium (steam) and electron-based apps.

One can look into it further here - The bug/regression should be in a commit between 1.6.5 and 1.6.6.
If I were to hazard a guess, I imagine it could possibly be a side effect to this commit, but that's just a lazy guess.

Last edited by banana_pancakes (2020-03-21 11:00:43)

nanawel · 2020-03-24 09:15:37

hb860 wrote:

It is indeed a bug in xfce4-power-manager.
Downgrading the package seems to solve the issue.
# pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/xfce4-power-manager-1.6.5-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz

Thank you so much. It was driving me crazy!

hb860 · 2020-03-24 21:29:20

Upgrading xfce4-screensaver to 0.1.9 resolves the issue.
https://git.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screens … aver-0.1.9
Already available in the repo, many thanks to maintainers.
The issue must be caused by the following bug: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16365
I've have upgraded both xfce4-power-manager and xfce4-screensaver, can't reproduce the bug anymore.

Arch Linux

#1 2020-03-14 07:34:10

Chromium triggers xfce4-screensaver

#2 2020-03-14 08:08:45

Re: Chromium triggers xfce4-screensaver

#3 2020-03-15 20:29:29

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#4 2020-03-21 10:56:56

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#5 2020-03-24 09:15:37

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#6 2020-03-24 21:29:20

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