Sigil Disappears when Screensaver/Lock Screen kicks in

ghostyjack · 04-08-2013, 09:07 AM

Is it just me or does this happen to others?

I've got a Windows XP (SP3) machine that I use (it's not my main machine, but I do use it a lot).

If I leave Sigil running and then walk away from the machine until the screensaver/lock screen starts and then come back and unlock it, Sigil is no longer running. Checked task manager and there is no Sigil process running. If I had not saved the epub before this happens, I lose what I've done to it as it doesn't save before disappearing.

This happens every single time.

mrmikel · 04-08-2013, 10:10 AM

What screen saver? Windows standard?

Doesn't happen on my Win7 machine, but they are not really comparable that way. I know that if I use the Lview screen saver the screen has artifacts when I come back and it doesn't happen with the Google one.

My condolences on the lost work!

ghostyjack · 04-08-2013, 10:20 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mrmikel

What screen saver? Windows standard?

Doesn't happen on my Win7 machine, but they are not really comparable that way. I know that if I use the Lview screen saver the screen has artifacts when I come back and it doesn't happen with the Google one.

My condolences on the lost work!

Thanks, it was getting annoying when I forgot to save it.

Yep, just the standard windows ones in XP.

Never have this with 0.6.2 or earlier.

Mark Nord · 04-08-2013, 10:51 AM

Noticed the same after waking Laptop which was gone into hibernation.
Also only since updating to 0.7.x.
Might this be a QT5 related problem?

mrmikel · 04-08-2013, 11:06 AM

It does seem like the kind of problem Qt would cause, doesn't it? And it is:

http://code.google.com/p/sigil/issues/detail?id=2032

ghostyjack · 04-08-2013, 11:10 AM

Looking at that issue, yep, that's it. Must remember to look at more that the open defect, otherwise I'd have seen that.

Well let's hope they fix Qt.

theducks · 04-08-2013, 11:24 AM

Does not happen if you just use a 'Blank' (10 Min) and turn OFF (power setting) on XP SP3

Screen Savers went out with early CRT's (poor Phosphor stability).

They Waste Power, use up Life of the (edge) backlight, and consume CPU cycles if you have a background task running (BOINC...)

ghostyjack · 04-08-2013, 11:40 AM

True, but I cannot disable it due to it having Windows configured to be able to use in work, so the IT department have a set configuration that everyone must use or the machine will not be allowed to connect to the work network.

Turtle91 · 04-08-2013, 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ghostyjack

True, but I cannot disable it due to it having Windows configured to be able to use in work, so the IT department have a set configuration that everyone must use or the machine will not be allowed to connect to the work network.

Sounds like some military/govm't brain child!! lol

ghostyjack · 04-09-2013, 10:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Turtle91

Sounds like some military/govm't brain child!! lol

Nope, it's a Telco. I had more flexibility when I worked in the defence industry.

They like to make sure that everyone has the exact same user experience regardless of what machine is being used or what role the user is. I'm an IT test engineer, but they think that I should have they same access as a customer service rep answering the phones.

So I can't install any additional software to do my job (no text editors, no FTP clients, no terminal emulators, no IVR trace tools, etc), took 3 months of constant complaining from my department before they relented and opened up our access. As we can also work from home, we need to be able to VPN into the work network, but to be able to do that from our own PC's (which are generally more powerfull and easier for us to use), we need to install their user profile onto it to be able to log in.

I decided I wasn't going to contaminate my main desktop PC with their profile, so built a separate machine that I could use for this. But as it's also useful to use as a low-powered media/file editing box, hence my using it (used to do all my epub editing on an Atom machine, but since 64bit was dropped, it's become unusable).

04-08-2013, 09:07 AM	#1
ghostyjack Guru Posts: 718 Karma: 1085610 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Bristol, England Device: PRS-T1, 1825PT, Galaxy Tab, One X, TF700T, Aura HD, Nexus 7	Sigil Disappears when Screensaver/Lock Screen kicks in Is it just me or does this happen to others? I've got a Windows XP (SP3) machine that I use (it's not my main machine, but I do use it a lot). If I leave Sigil running and then walk away from the machine until the screensaver/lock screen starts and then come back and unlock it, Sigil is no longer running. Checked task manager and there is no Sigil process running. If I had not saved the epub before this happens, I lose what I've done to it as it doesn't save before disappearing. This happens every single time.

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04-08-2013, 10:10 AM	#2
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	What screen saver? Windows standard? Doesn't happen on my Win7 machine, but they are not really comparable that way. I know that if I use the Lview screen saver the screen has artifacts when I come back and it doesn't happen with the Google one. My condolences on the lost work!

04-08-2013, 10:51 AM	#4
Mark Nord 2B \|\| !2B Posts: 851 Karma: 194010 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Austria Device: Sony PRS505/650/T1/tolino vision 5	Noticed the same after waking Laptop which was gone into hibernation. Also only since updating to 0.7.x. Might this be a QT5 related problem?

04-08-2013, 11:06 AM	#5
mrmikel Color me gone Posts: 2,089 Karma: 1445295 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Central Oregon Coast Device: PRS-300	It does seem like the kind of problem Qt would cause, doesn't it? And it is: http://code.google.com/p/sigil/issues/detail?id=2032

04-08-2013, 11:10 AM	#6
ghostyjack Guru Posts: 718 Karma: 1085610 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Bristol, England Device: PRS-T1, 1825PT, Galaxy Tab, One X, TF700T, Aura HD, Nexus 7	Looking at that issue, yep, that's it. Must remember to look at more that the open defect, otherwise I'd have seen that. Well let's hope they fix Qt.

04-08-2013, 11:24 AM	#7
theducks Well trained by Cats Posts: 29,786 Karma: 54830978 Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: The Central Coast of California Device: Kobo Libra2,Kobo Aura2v1, K4NT(Fixed: New Bat.), Galaxy Tab A	Does not happen if you just use a 'Blank' (10 Min) and turn OFF (power setting) on XP SP3 Screen Savers went out with early CRT's (poor Phosphor stability). They Waste Power, use up Life of the (edge) backlight, and consume CPU cycles if you have a background task running (BOINC...)

04-08-2013, 11:40 AM	#8
ghostyjack Guru Posts: 718 Karma: 1085610 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Bristol, England Device: PRS-T1, 1825PT, Galaxy Tab, One X, TF700T, Aura HD, Nexus 7	True, but I cannot disable it due to it having Windows configured to be able to use in work, so the IT department have a set configuration that everyone must use or the machine will not be allowed to connect to the work network.

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