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light-locker package

Light locker wakes too easily

Asked by Colin Hemming

Light locker does just what is needed, but the slightest twitch of the mouse is enough to wake it up (as with other screen savers).

Is it possible to only wake on either persistent or more significant movements of the mouse, as even low level twitching in the device is enough to wake things?

Having cats who kick the mouse on their way across the desk does not help matters.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

What is the output of:

lsb_release -a; uname -a; apt-cache policy light-locker

Thanks

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Colin Hemming (b-ubuntuone14) said : 		#2

Here is the output you requested, although this is a long-standing problem with most screen lockers.

I have additionally noticed that this is what causes my fiancee's computer to never lock, which had been puzzling me. It has an optical mouse that causes fractional jitter that, while it doesn't move the pointer, keeps it awake. If I invert the mouse to prevent it tracking, it locks, as expected. Personally, I'd like an option to totally ignore the mouse or even go as far as setting it so only a certain keyboard button triggers it. I know people are used to pressing anything or jiggling the mouse but I have never liked it.

No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Release: 16.04
Codename: xenial
Linux colin-2016PC 4.4.0-24-generic #43-Ubuntu SMP Wed Jun 8 19:27:37 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
light-locker:
  Installed: 1.7.0-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 1.7.0-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 1.7.0-2ubuntu1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) said : 		#3

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