GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 537666
inactivity detection broken with dual screen setups (no xinerama)
Last modified: 2008-11-13 18:08:53 UTC
Please describe the problem: It seems that if you have a dual screen setup (separated screens, with xinerama disabled) if you have the pointer and you are using the second monitor the inactivity triggers anyway just like if you weren't working on the second monitor: this can be quite annoying considering it triggers the screensaver/screen power off and removes temporary gamma changes. (tried with an nvidia card) Steps to reproduce: 1. Setup a separated xscreen dual screen enviroment from nvidia-settings, keep xinerama disabled and save xorg.conf from the nvidia-settings application 2. Enable inactivity detection in gnome-screensaver and maybe select also a screensaver 3. restart x server to make the configuration active 4. login in 5. start working in the second monitor 6. eventually the screen saver will kick in during the work Actual results: The screensaver starts in both screen even if you were working after the "dissolvence" like effect. in any case it seems gnome isn't noticing that the computer isn't idle on the second monitor Expected results: That i don't get a screensaver/powered off screen while i'm working on my second monitor with either mouse or keyboard Does this happen every time? yes 100% of times Other information:
Created attachment 112568 [details] x server configuration
I can confirm this, I have the same bug(described on bug #555086) with gnome 2.24.
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 427905 ***