Thanks.
John
Interesting, because I think I have more than enough memory (32 GB). Thanks.
Sorry for the delay in responding. I used the default install for 3.2.
I also just noticed that it appears that memory is not being purged when apps are closed. Today when I "woke up" the screen from one of these odd screen saver like issues, it very briefly displayed a browser window with a site I was on yesterday. I looked carefully and confirmed that I did not actually have that window open on my system. It's as if something from yesterday's memory was sent to the screen and then closed. Rather disconcerting.
John
If the memory that temporarily renders to the screen is as isolated from other appvms as expected rendered content (like an open windows), then, yes, I'm not concerned about leakage from one environment to another.
I will say that it is simply disconcerting to see it display, security implications aside. More important to me, though, is the hope that this "screen saver" triggering will go away on future updates. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help that process.
John
Hi all, I'm having the exact same issue both on my previous qubes installation and the current one. It seems to get worse when I have browser windows open, and it continues even if I disable hardware acceleration.
There is a bug tracker entry for this issue:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2399
The screenshot shows exactly what I'm seeing too. It's very annoying and probably not an issue with graphics drivers. If there is anything I can do to help solve it, I'd be happy to do so.
--Opal
I found that this happened when I had the Qubes VM Manager set to appear on all desktops ("Always on Visible Worksace"). When I stopped that, it stopped the problem. Tried this 5 or 6 times on 2 different machines. Running v.3.2 with and without Feb. updates; no difference.
HTH,
--Ian
Oh that's interesting, I found that disabling the compositor (Menu>System Tools>Window Manager Tweaks>Compositor) solves the problem for me and also for somebody else on the github tracker entry.
I can't find the 'always on visible workspaces' settings, but I also lost the tray icon for the Qubes VM Manager somehow.