Landon8675309
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I've been having trouble with my screen saver not working for a while, it started back in April and what happens is that when my session times out or I hit CTRL-ALT-L it will immediately start the screen saver until I wiggle the mouse or press a button on the keyboard, but now all that I get is a black screen until I wiggle the mouse or press a key and then the login prompt comes back.
I found this fix: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-screensaver/issues/92
Which has you go into the File System and right click on the "etc" folder and choose "Open as Administrator" and put in your password, then open the "xdg" folder, then the "autostart" folder, find the file "mate-screensaver.desktop" and open it with a text editor...
Change "Exec=mate-screensaver" to "Exec=mate-screensaver --display=:0" save the file, log out and then log back in, and it started working again when I hit CTRL-ALT-L.
Several months went by and it stopped working again and went back to just giving me a black screen, I checked the "mate-screensaver.desktop" it still has the entry as: "Exec=mate-screensaver --display=:0"
The ".xsession-errors" file is full of errors regarding this problem and they pop up every time the screen saver goes to a black screen:
(mate-screensaver:1727): GLib-CRITICAL **: 19:09:35.814: Source ID 6862 was not found when attempting to remove it
** (mate-screensaver:1727): CRITICAL **: 19:09:46.509: matemenu_tree_get_root_directory: assertion 'tree->loaded' failed
** (mate-screensaver:1727): CRITICAL **: 19:09:46.742: matemenu_tree_get_root_directory: assertion 'tree->loaded' failed
** (mate-screensaver:1727): CRITICAL **: 19:19:46.743: matemenu_tree_get_root_directory: assertion 'tree->loaded' failed
** (mate-screensaver:1727): CRITICAL **: 19:19:46.743: matemenu_tree_get_root_directory: assertion 'tree->loaded' failed
** (mate-screensaver:1727): CRITICAL **: 19:29:46.774: matemenu_tree_get_root_directory: assertion 'tree->loaded' failed
** (mate-screensaver:1727): CRITICAL **: 19:29:46.774: matemenu_tree_get_root_directory: assertion 'tree->loaded' failed
(mate-power-manager:1725): GLib-CRITICAL **: 19:32:54.609: Source ID 1742 was not found when attempting to remove it
Any help would be appreciated.
I found this fix: https://github.com/mate-desktop/mate-screensaver/issues/92
Which has you go into the File System and right click on the "etc" folder and choose "Open as Administrator" and put in your password, then open the "xdg" folder, then the "autostart" folder, find the file "mate-screensaver.desktop" and open it with a text editor...
Change "Exec=mate-screensaver" to "Exec=mate-screensaver --display=:0" save the file, log out and then log back in, and it started working again when I hit CTRL-ALT-L.
Several months went by and it stopped working again and went back to just giving me a black screen, I checked the "mate-screensaver.desktop" it still has the entry as: "Exec=mate-screensaver --display=:0"
The ".xsession-errors" file is full of errors regarding this problem and they pop up every time the screen saver goes to a black screen:
(mate-screensaver:1727): GLib-CRITICAL **: 19:09:35.814: Source ID 6862 was not found when attempting to remove it
** (mate-screensaver:1727): CRITICAL **: 19:09:46.509: matemenu_tree_get_root_directory: assertion 'tree->loaded' failed
** (mate-screensaver:1727): CRITICAL **: 19:09:46.742: matemenu_tree_get_root_directory: assertion 'tree->loaded' failed
** (mate-screensaver:1727): CRITICAL **: 19:19:46.743: matemenu_tree_get_root_directory: assertion 'tree->loaded' failed
** (mate-screensaver:1727): CRITICAL **: 19:19:46.743: matemenu_tree_get_root_directory: assertion 'tree->loaded' failed
** (mate-screensaver:1727): CRITICAL **: 19:29:46.774: matemenu_tree_get_root_directory: assertion 'tree->loaded' failed
** (mate-screensaver:1727): CRITICAL **: 19:29:46.774: matemenu_tree_get_root_directory: assertion 'tree->loaded' failed
(mate-power-manager:1725): GLib-CRITICAL **: 19:32:54.609: Source ID 1742 was not found when attempting to remove it
Any help would be appreciated.
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