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xfce4-power-manager blocks screensaver

Submitted by Patrick H

Link to original bug (#15111)

Description

xfce4-power-manager prevents xscreensaver from ever starting. And if the screensaver is started manually, about once a minute it wakes up and prompts for the unlock password. This would appear to be because xfce4-power-manager is sending keypress signals at a regular interval.

This has been reported several places, including the official xscreensaver page:
https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#no-blank
https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/325053/4358
https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/253184/4358
https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/324789/4358

Version: 1.6.1

Edited by Yousuf Philips