in xscreensaver-demo monitor does not restart

Is this still an issue in Hardy?

Hi Tromod,
    While the xscreensaver works, but I got this output on the CLI, don't know whether its useful or not.

xscreensaver: 01:01:35: 0: unrecognised ClientMessage "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW" received
xscreensaver: 01:01:35: 0: for window 0x6a00020 (gnome-terminal / Gnome-terminal)
xscreensaver: 01:01:42: 0: unrecognised ClientMessage "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW" received
xscreensaver: 01:01:42: 0: for window 0x4e00a84 (deluge / Deluge)

as well as

xscreensaver: 00:59:27: 0: unrecognised ClientMessage "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW" received
xscreensaver: 00:59:27: 0: for window 0x6a00020 (gnome-terminal / Gnome-terminal)
xscreensaver: 00:59:46: 0: unrecognised ClientMessage "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW" received
xscreensaver: 00:59:46: 0: for window 0x4e00026 (deluge / Deluge)
xscreensaver: 01:00:09: 0: unrecognised ClientMessage "WM_CHANGE_STATE" received
xscreensaver: 01:00:09: 0: for window 0x4e00026 (deluge / Deluge)
xscreensaver: 01:00:39: 0: unrecognised ClientMessage "_NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW" received
xscreensaver: 01:00:39: 0: for window 0x4e00590 (deluge / Deluge)
xscreensaver: 01:00:51: -1: unrecognised ClientMessage "_NET_WM_STATE" received
xscreensaver: 01:00:51: -1: for window 0x4e005ba ((null) / (null))

Anything interesting?

This was after I had closed xscreensaver Preferences stuff.

Some info. about the package

shirish@Mugglewille:~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/xscreensaver-demo
xscreensaver: /usr/bin/xscreensaver-demo
shirish@Mugglewille:~$ dpkg -l xscreensaver
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-f/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/t-aWait/T-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-======================-======================-============================================================
ii xscreensaver 5.04-1ubuntu1 Automatic screensaver for X

There are no. of other things which also happened :-

shirish@Mugglewille:~$ xscreensaver-demo

X error in attraction:

X error in demon:

X error in rotor:
X Error of failed request: BadDrawable (invalid Pixmap or Window parameter)
  Major opcode of failed request: 66 (X_PolySegment)
  Resource id in failed request: 0x62020a6
  Serial number of failed request: 2607
  Current serial number in output stream: 2610
window-id:unknown function
                 XaoS3.2 help text
 (This help is genereated automagically. I am sorry for all inconvencies)

option string param description

 -delay number
                  Delay screen updates (milliseconds)
 -driver string
                  Select driver
 -list List available drivers. Then exit
 -config Print configuration. Then exit
 -speedtest Test speed of calculation loop. Then exit
 -threads number
                  Multiple CPUs unsupported - please recompile XaoS with threads enabled
 -pipe string
                  Accept commands from pipe (use "-" for stdin)
 -maxframerate number
                  Maximal framerate (0 for unlimited - default)

Screen size options:

  Knowledge of exact screen size makes random dot stereogram look better.
  Also is used for choosing correct view area

 -screenwidth f.point
                  exact size of screen in centimeters
 -screenheight f.point
                  exact size of screen in centimeters

  Use this option in case you use some kind of virtual screen
  or something similiar that confuses previous options

 -pixelwidth f.point
                  exact size of one pixel in centimeters
 -pixelheight f.point
                  exact size of one pixel in centimeters

Animation rendering:

 -render string
                  Render animation into seqence of .png files
 -basename string
                  Name for .png files (XaoS will add 4 digit number and extension
 -size string
                  widthxheight
 -renderimage string
                  256 or truecolor
 -renderframerate f.point
                  framerate
 -antialiasing Perform antialiasing (slow, requires quite lot of memory)
 -alwaysrecalc Always recalculate whole image (slowes down rendering, increases quality)
 -rendervectors Render motion vectors (should be used for MPEG encoding)
 -iframedist number
                  Recommended distance between I frames in pat file (should be used for MPEG encoding)

X11 driver options:

 -display string
                  Select display
 -size string
                  Select size of window (WIDTHxHEIGHT).
 -sync Generate sync signals before looking for events. This
   helps on old and buggy HP-UX X servers.
 -shared Use shared colormap on pseudocolor display.
 -usedefault Use default visual if autodetection causes troubles.
 -nomitshm Disable MITSHM extension.
 -fullscreen Enable fullscreen mode.
 -windowid number
                  Use selected window.
 -root Use root window.

DGA driver options:

 -display string
                  Select display
 -defmode ...

> ii xscreensaver 5.04-1ubuntu1 Automatic screensaver for X

5.04-2ubuntu2 was released today - please check if it makes any difference. I am not able to reproduce - do you have a custom application defaults file?

I think you have "xaos" installed. Do you get the same if you uninstall it?

The original issue of the screen not waking up, is that still valid?

Tormod, I have yet to check out the orginal issue, will do in sometime. What's interesting is what u say about xaos. I don't know what the issue is but xoas doesn't show a conflict.

 aptitude show xaos
Package: xaos
State: installed
Automatically installed: yes
Version: 3.2-6ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: graphics
Maintainer: Ubuntu Core Developers <email address hidden>
Uncompressed Size: 2331k
Depends: libaa1 (>= 1.2), libc6 (>= 2.6.1-1), libgpmg1 (>= 1.19.6-1), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libx11-6,
         libxext6, libxxf86dga1, libxxf86vm1, zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-1)
Conflicts: suidmanager (< 0.50)
Description: real-time interactive fractal zoomer
 XaoS allows you to zoom and pan around a fractal in real time. It can display the animated fractals in graphical
 or even plain text mode.

 It displays the Mandelbrot set or many other fractals and allows you to zoom smoothly into the fractal. Various
 coloring modes are provided for both the points inside and outside the selected set. In addition, switching
 between Mandelbrot and Julia fractal types is provided.

 Other features include autopilot mode, palette changing, image saving, fractal inversion, filters, and a built
 in fractal tutorial.

Of course you're the expert so would be able to throw more light on the matter :)

As far as the custom application defaults file is concerned, I don't think I did any changes but just for your reference, here's

/etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver-nogl

/etc/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver-gl

and .xscreensaver in my /home/shirish/ directory.

I also get this dialog, Xscreensaver daemon doesn't seem to be running on display ":0.0" Launch it now?

Also 3-4 screensavers seem to be not installed, although the -data, -data-extra -gl and -gl-extra packages are installed.

Another interesting note, gnome-screensaver is installed, which the description says if installed, then this package is not needed. I'm sorry this is going like a Q&A rather than the simple bug which I did before.

disregard the last question/statement. I just found the answer at http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#gnome-screensaver & hence purged/un-installed gnome-screensaver.

You should install either xscreensaver or gnome-screensaver. In both cases you can install the -data, -data-extra -gl and -gl-extra packages. Ubuntu comes with gnome-screensaver by default, so unless you have special needs I would recommend to keep it.

xaos doesn't work properly as a screensaver hack since it doesn't take the "-window-id" option. Please file a bug on xaos to get it fixed. Meanwhile we should take the xaos lines out of our app-default files. Can you please file a bug for this also? Then we can keep this bug report for the original issue :)

Hi Tormod,
       submitted bug 189475 and bug 189477 . Please have a look at the bugs if anything is left out or needs to be changed. For now things look cool, although haven't used suspend, only using Standby after 1 minute and putting Suspend as well as off after 1440 minutes. Another question, why is there a never in Xscreensaver Preferences > Advanced > Display Power Management ? Of course if needed will file a bug about that too.

Shirish, is this bug still valid?

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!