CentOS - Oct 2015 - C7: screensaver locks screen

On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:36:27PM -0400, Jonathan Billings
wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 06:12:26PM -0400, Fred Smith wrote:
> > I just realized that it's not the screensaver. I find the lock
screen is up
> > whenever it comes up from standby (and I think a fresh boot, though
I've
> > not tried to reproduce that yet.) Since I put it in standby a lot
rather than
> > shutting it down, I see it a lot. and it just started.
> 
> I seem to recall that gnome-screensaver no longer exists in the
> version of Gnome3 in CentOS7.  I think maybe GDM starts the lock
> screen, not the user session.
> 
> I think you need to set /org/gnome/desktop/session/idle-delay=0 in
> dconf to turn it off.
unfortunately, that setting is already set to zero.
> 
> When I use something other than Gnome3, I switch my DM to lightdm
> (available in EPEL), and I've found it tends to run the non-gnome3
> environments along expectations.
Can you remind me how to switch from one DM to another? I know I
used to know, but right now cannot recall the proper incantations.

Thanks!

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On Oct 29, 2015, at 4:44 PM, Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
wrote:
> Can you remind me how to switch from one DM to another? I know I
> used to know, but right now cannot recall the proper incantations.
systemctl disable gdm.service
systemctl enable lightdm.service
(reboot or stop gdm and start lightdm from a VT)

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On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 09:28:02PM -0400, Jonathan Billings
wrote:
> On Oct 29, 2015, at 4:44 PM, Fred Smith <fredex at
fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:
> > Can you remind me how to switch from one DM to another? I know I
> > used to know, but right now cannot recall the proper incantations.
> 
> systemctl disable gdm.service
> systemctl enable lightdm.service
> (reboot or stop gdm and start lightdm from a VT)
> 
> --
> Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>
Thanks for the reminder!

unfortunately, the problem still exists: after standby, when waking up
I still get a prompt for my password.

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