Re: [gentoo-user] how to wake up gdm

Michael Cook <mcook@××××××.net> wrote:

> On 06/24/2014 11:51 AM, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> > Hi.  If I don't log in to gdm after a few minutes gdm enters a mode
> > where no keystroke seems to wake it up -- I did manage to move the mouse
> > and wake it up, but is there a way to disable the feature (maybe its a
> > screen saver or something), so it does not go to sleep?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >
> Something must be going wrong. Basically it's entering powersave mode
> instead of activating a screen saver like older gnome would. Maybe
> it's entering suspend/hibernate instead of just putting the display to
> sleep?
>
> Either way, shaking my mouse or pressing a key wakes GDM up fine here.

Hmmm, this last time, even shaking the mouse did nothing, I had to
restart gdm and gdm always leaves behind several processes which I must
kill for things to  work again.

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