[Mageia-dev] KDE screensaver blocks background GUI processing ?

Mon Oct 10 13:57:00 CEST 2011

Before I enter a bug report for this, I'd like to be a little more 
+certain of the nature of the problem.
+
+I have a wine-based Windows app that is launched nightly by cron on a 
+system running 24x7.  It puts up a window that says it will start a 
+download in 30 seconds, and then refreshes the window counting down to 
+zero, at which point it starts.
+
+For the last week or two in cauldron, the app launches from cron, but 
+the countdown does not begin until I come down in the morning and hit a 
+key to clear the screensaver.  It looks to me as though the act of 
+opening the window is being blocked by the screensaver, effectively 
+suspending the app.  Prior to "recently", this has been working fine.
+
+This is a pretty unique situation, so I won't bother asking if anyone 
+else is seeing it, but does anyone familiar with the newer KDE release 
+in cauldron have any idea what's causing this ?
+
+So far, all I can think of to do is, one-by-one, disable the screensaver 
+and then any display power management to see what's causing it, but 
+possibly kwin is now refusing to deliver window events when the SS is 
+active ?
+