#1080202 debian-live-12.7.0-amd64-kde.iso: screensaver not disabled

Package:
live-config
Source:
live-config
Submitter:
Simon McVittie
Date:
2026-01-10 11:06:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1080202#5
Date:
2024-08-31 15:01:14 UTC
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To reproduce:
* boot debian-live-12.7.0-amd64-kde.iso
* wait for the screen to blank/lock
* wake up the machine and try to use it

Expected result: ideally the screen would blank but not lock, since a
well-known password doesn't provide any meaningful security

Actual result: you have to "just know" that the password is "live"

    smcv
#1080202#10
Date:
2024-09-01 07:21:33 UTC
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Hello Simon,

Effectively it is a feature request: Disable the screensaver for all
live images.

It would probably also be meaningful to disable the password after
waking up from hibernate/sleep, since then typically the password is
prompted too.

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus
#1080202#15
Date:
2024-09-01 09:06:44 UTC
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It's essentially the same request, but I assume the mechanism to disable
screen locking is going to be different for each desktop environment, so
it's entirely possible that it will be much easier to fix for one desktop's
live image than for another.

    smcv
#1080202#20
Date:
2024-09-01 10:29:05 UTC
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Am 01.09.24 um 09:21 schrieb Roland Clobus:>>
 >
 > This looks like a duplicate #995364 (from 3 years ago).
 >
 > Effectively it is a feature request: Disable the screensaver for all
 > live images.
 >
 > It would probably also be meaningful to disable the password after
 > waking up from hibernate/sleep, since then typically the password is
 > prompted too.
If this proves to be too complicated because every Desktop Environment
does things differently, how about selecting a slideshow image
screensaver in everyone, and make it display a few PNGs that read

default settings:
username: user
password: live

in large white letters across a black background, in different positions
(to avoid burn-in)?

For wakeup, maybe it's possible to add text to the prompt or have some
sort of startup job that prints a message to the screen?
Maybe one created by figlet?
  _   _ ___  ___ _ __ _ __   __ _ _ __ ___   ___ _   _   _ ___  ___ _ __
| | | / __|/ _ \ '__| '_ \ / _` | '_ ` _ \ / _ (_) | | | / __|/ _ \ '__|
| |_| \__ \  __/ |  | | | | (_| | | | | | |  __/_  | |_| \__ \  __/ |
  \__,_|___/\___|_|  |_| |_|\__,_|_| |_| |_|\___(_)  \__,_|___/\___|_|
                                            _     _ _
  _ __   __ _ ___ _____      _____  _ __ __| |_  | (_)_   _____
| '_ \ / _` / __/ __\ \ /\ / / _ \| '__/ _` (_) | | \ \ / / _ \
| |_) | (_| \__ \__ \\ V  V / (_) | | | (_| |_  | | |\ V /  __/
| .__/ \__,_|___/___/ \_/\_/ \___/|_|  \__,_(_) |_|_| \_/ \___|

Kind Regards,
Stefan Baur
#1080202#25
Date:
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