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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0009060 | Kali Linux | General Bug | public | 2025-01-07 17:27 | 2025-01-17 17:08 |
Reporter | kpd | Assigned To | |||
Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
Summary | 0009060: Lock screen activated despite settings set to not lock screen in Kali 2024.4 | ||||
Description | Since Kali 2024.4, several users have reported that the lock screen is activated after a short period of inactivity, despite settings changed to prevent. Configuring power and display options to prevent screen lock does not stop the screen from locking automatically. I was running 2024.3 in a VM and had no problems. Performed an upgrade and first noticed the issue. Downloaded a new base install of 2024.4, and noticed the issue is also present with no additional changes. To replicate issue, download new ISO image of 2024.4 in a VM and the screen logout will occur, even if the setting is disabled. Several users affected, see this report and messages in OffSec Discord server for further examples. | ||||
Needs to be reported to the Desktop Environment (e.g. XFCE) developers? |
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Per a discussion with XFCE developers in https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-power-manager/-/issues/260, xfce-power-manager (Version 4.20) no longer controls any applications that use the screensaver/screen lock. light-locker is one of those screensaver/screen lock applications that is installed automatically in Kali. Killing this process and disabling it at startup seems to be the only way to stop the automatic lock-out at 10 minutes. With xfce-power-manager version 4.20 no longer controlling applications like light-locker, should this be removed from automatic install? I've attempted to use xfce-screensaver instead, but it appears it has issues with PAM as I'm not able to login after the screen locks (separate issue, I know). |
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Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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2025-01-07 17:27 | kpd | New Issue | |
2025-01-08 16:47 | kali-bugreport | Note Added: 0020226 | |
2025-01-08 18:41 | dudah16x | Issue cloned: 0009061 | |
2025-01-17 17:08 | fiktion5 | Note Added: 0020262 |