[SOLVED]Monitor keeps locking

[paul1149]

The problem returned this morning, and when I went to check the screensaver settings, once again its daemon wasn't running. I think that is the problem, and IIRC I had removed it from autostart when I was parsing some settings, thinking I didn't want a screensaver. I've turned it back on autostart, so we shall see.

[torreydale]

Please mark this thread as SOLVED.  If you don't know how to do that, you can see how here:  https://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/on-topic/new-forum-mods/msg16053/#msg16053.

[paul1149]

Those changes I made have solved the problem. Now to find which one did the trick. But that's not crucial. Thanks everyone.

[torreydale]

@paul1149,
Good idea.  Some of these settings might be working against one another.  And I'm not surprised you overlooked the Light Locker Settings.  The name isn't intuitive and I just learned about it 1-2 months ago myself.

@Jerry,
No problem.  Reaching out indirectly helps me, too.

[Jerry]

Thanks torreydale, I've been at work all day

[paul1149]

Hi torreydale,

Yes, on the monitor tab I had turned the sliders all the way to "Never" Land.

Light Locker is interesting. Hadn't opened it before. So far this morning I haven't had any lockups since enabling screensaver. I'm going to leave it as-is for a while for testing. Then I'll return to this and see how it affects things.

Thanks!

[torreydale]

@paul1149,

Also consider:
   1) The Monitor tab under your Power Manager AC settings.
   2) Look at your Light Locker Settings (Menu->Settings->Light Locker Settings).

[paul1149]

Trying something different. I *enabled* the screensaver and set it to a large delay. I also disabled power management, with Hiber and Suspend, there. This is to jog the settings. We shall see.

[paul1149]

I must have a corruption problem here. Even unchecking that box did nothing. I fried an egg in the kitchen, took maybe 10 minutes max, and came back to a locked screen. The setting is still unchecked.

[paul1149]

Ok. That I think I can do.

Thanks!

[Jerry]

Untick the box on that screenshot, then it won't be used.

[paul1149]

That's what I thought you meant, but I don't see how it's possible. I have radio buttons I'm dealing with. It's one or the other, unless there's a master setting that shuts them off:

[Jerry]

To be clear, don't use suspend or hibernate, or standby or suspend. Just set it to lock screen.

[paul1149]

I'm not quite clear on what you mean. I've just now moved the computer and monitor sliders back to "never" on the AC tab. I'm on a tower, so no battery tab. On the Extended tab I have to spec either suspend or hibernate, or standby or suspend, respectively. I have computer hibernate and monitor standby. And I've checked Lock screen. Guess I'll just watch it and see. Been too busy this evening to give it a chance to lock. Thanks.

[Jerry]

Suspend and hibernate to this day, are troublesome on Ubuntu based distros. Just set it to lock screen on timeout, this will be very low power anyway.