Does Mint have screensaver and locking issues with Cinnamon?
I install Mint on computers of people that don’t want Windows and that I have to help, but I personally use Debian and MATE. Recently I tried to use Cinnamon on Debian but the screensaver was not always working. Sometimes I was away for days and when I was coming back, my monitor was still on. And sometimes the screensaver got stuck, impossible to remove without restarting my session.
I have a friend that tried Mint too, and he basically told me the same thibg was happening to him.
I have not heard about this from other folks to whom I installed Mint, but since they’re all very basic users that turn off their computer every time they are done, it never came up.
It would be my only issue with Mint for beginners. If they leave their computer running and come back later, there’s a slight chance that the screensaver will either not be started, or very difficult to exit.
I don’t want to spam multiple links with examples, but you can look this up on your favourite search engine to find multiple current problems with Cinnamon’s screensaver. It seems pretty common and that’s why I’m asking.
Does Mint have screensaver and locking issues with Cinnamon?
I install Mint on computers of people that don’t want Windows and that I have to help, but I personally use Debian and MATE. Recently I tried to use Cinnamon on Debian but the screensaver was not always working. Sometimes I was away for days and when I was coming back, my monitor was still on. And sometimes the screensaver got stuck, impossible to remove without restarting my session.
I have a friend that tried Mint too, and he basically told me the same thibg was happening to him.
I have not heard about this from other folks to whom I installed Mint, but since they’re all very basic users that turn off their computer every time they are done, it never came up.
It would be my only issue with Mint for beginners. If they leave their computer running and come back later, there’s a slight chance that the screensaver will either not be started, or very difficult to exit.
I believe this is an X issue, not a Mint issue. Most other distros have switched to Wayland, but Mint will use X until Wayland is mature enough.
Not strictly a Mint issue, but it’s still sotfware from them.
https://github.com/linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver/issues/93
If this was the issue you’re talking about.
Never happens for me, across a laptop and three PCs
What the crap? Surely this can’t be a widespread issue?
I don’t want to spam multiple links with examples, but you can look this up on your favourite search engine to find multiple current problems with Cinnamon’s screensaver. It seems pretty common and that’s why I’m asking.
Here’s a link that’s from a month ago listing all the possible causes.
Here’s another one from a few months ago.