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My system hasn't changed much in a long time except for the occasional pacman upgrade. I use KDM as a login manager, My wife uses KDE (and the kde screensaver), I use openbox and xscreenaver (I don't even know if it's possible to start kdescreensaver outside of KDE's environment). Anyway, long ago, I added the appropriate line to ./xscreensaver (kdmctl reserve), and it has worked great, until very recently. Now when my wife clicks the "new Login" button, it grays out, and does nothing else.
This is causing me problems, as you can imagine "Why won't you just give me your password?" Ugh.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Last edited by Convergence (2015-03-05 22:04:15)
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New developments:
1. Instead of logging in to openbox like I usually do from KDM, I logged into KDE, and tried using the KDE screensaver to "change users", and it did not work. (It simply ignored when I clicked "start new session).
2. I updated my system via pacman -Syu
3. Slightly different behavior from KDE screensaver when I click "start new session", instead of ignoring me, the screen goes blank except for a flashing cursor in the top left of the screen, and I've transitioned from VT7 to VT8. Pressing CTL+ALT+F7 just returns me to KDE's screensaver giving me the option to login or "create new session" again.
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I'll mark this "solved".
OK, switching to KDE gave me insight into the problem: It wasn't an Xscreensaver problem. That let me change my Google search terms, and I found this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=191512 which led back to the wiki. This was the solution: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xo … _Xorg_1.16
I think I remember reading that specific part of the wiki, and thinking that it didn't apply to me because it "switching users" had always worked in the past.
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