light-locker mutes audio

mintmdrescher · Post by **mintmdrescher** » Mon Mar 19, 2018 5:15 am

With Mint 18.3, when light-locker (may be some other lockers,too) kicks in, my audio gets muted. Which I do not want.
Could not figure out so far, how light-locker does this (not to mention, why). neither how to prevent this.

Any one of you know, how to tell light-locker NOT to mute my audio?

Flemur · Post by **Flemur** » Mon Mar 19, 2018 4:43 pm

Two fixes here:
https://askubuntu.com/questions/450443/ ... een-is-loc

mintmdrescher · Post by **mintmdrescher** » Wed Mar 21, 2018 1:18 pm

That 'When the screensaver is deactivated' option does not work for me, any other combination neither. So the only working fix that is left would be not using light-locker but xscreensaver instead. Which can hardly be called a fix im my eyes.

However: mate-screensaver has no silly mute feature.

mintmdrescher · Post by **mintmdrescher** » Wed Mar 21, 2018 4:51 pm

From Simon Steinbeiß:

light-locker locks the complete session, i.e. the seat (in lightdm terms), so there is no way audio could continue to play because it stops all processes of that user session.

Other screensavers (xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver) merely put a black top-level window above all other windows. light-locker completely locks the session and redirects you to the greeter, that's the difference

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Solved (not really): light-locker mutes audio

Here is the reply to a feature request to add a do-not-mute option