linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver

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The Cinnamon screen locker and screensaver program

Stars: 159
Forks: 98
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 42

Dominant language: Python
License: GPL-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 5, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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42 open issues indexed

AttributeError in passwordEntry.py restore_original_layout() on unlock ('NoneType' object has no attribute 'index') — leads to Cinnamon compositor glitches/black screen Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 70/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#517 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Cinnamon screensaver does not support pam_u2f/FIDO2 authentication although the PAM stack works correctly Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#516 · Opened Sep 4, 2026
Multi-monitor: lock screen UI rebuilds spawn competing PAM helpers, losing the fprintd claim (no fingerprint prompt) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#515 · Opened Sep 3, 2026
cinnamon-screensaver-pam-helper ships without its setuid bit — lock screen hangs/fails on every unlock Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 88/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#513 · Opened Aug 26, 2026
CPU hog + memory leak after suspend/resume — screensaver becomes unkillable Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#505 · Opened Jul 12, 2026
The computer failed entirely to lock Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#501 · 8 comments · Opened May 15, 2026
Allow screen locking in persistent live sessions Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 65/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#499 · 1 comment · Opened May 15, 2026
After crash, new instance fails PAM conversation immediately → screen never sleeps Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#498 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 29, 2026
Seeing unlocked display when switching back tty Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#497 · Opened Mar 21, 2026
Screensaver / suspend Issue Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#496 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 21, 2026
pam_fingwit causes repeated sys.excepthook errors in cinnamon-screensaver (Goodix fingerprint sensor) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#495 · Opened Mar 10, 2026
Lockscreen not rendered with fractional ui scaling Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#493 · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 28, 2026
Stop using caribou Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#488 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 24, 2025
Modernizing Screensaver Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#486 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 23, 2025
Cinnamon--unlock-desktop after blank screen Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#485 · 2 comments · Opened Oct 31, 2025
Password not validated on the resume from suspend screen Open

BUG

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#484 · Opened Oct 21, 2025
cinnamon-screensaver crashes and allows unlock without password when memory is full Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#480 · Opened Jul 9, 2025
Security problem: no password required to unlock, followed by crash - on a Framework 13 Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#479 · 2 comments · Opened Jun 10, 2025
cinnamon-screensaver[959]: CsNotificationWatcher: Could not add match rule to bus - GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.MatchRuleInvalid: Invalid match rule Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#474 · Opened Mar 24, 2025
Keyboard shorcuts on lock screen (screensaver) doesn't work after update. Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#473 · Opened Mar 15, 2025
Lock screen not displaying correctly on dual monitor setup with scaling. Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#471 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 21, 2025
Hard crash when closing laptop lid while external monitors are attached via USB-C Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#468 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 23, 2025
External monitors can show hidden content before screen is unlocked Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#466 · 5 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Dec 24, 2024
Connecting a new display sometimes causes the screensaver to freeze (preventing unlocking the screen) Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#465 · Opened Nov 28, 2024
`cinnamon-screensaver-command --deactivate` unlocks the screen Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#442 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 8, 2023
Upon wake, the desktop was visible briefly before the lock screen showed Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#440 · 32 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Aug 20, 2023
Lock screen rendering scaled/squished Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#438 · 9 comments · Opened Jul 28, 2023
Typing on windows behind lockscreen Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#436 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2023
Screensaver time and date not aligned well Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#430 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 14, 2023
Black screen when locked, no log in prompt present Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#424 · 24 comments · Opened Dec 1, 2022
special passphrase(s) that execute a kill-command Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#423 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 27, 2022
User password will not unlock screensaver Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#412 · 40 comments · 14 reactions · Opened Aug 9, 2022
Resumption after using an external monitor causes strange flashing that shows the _unlocked_ desktop Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#406 · 5 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 13, 2022
Virtual keyboard on locked screen: QWERTZ layout should be QWERTY layout (the "z" and "y" are interchanged) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#403 · 8 comments · Opened Feb 17, 2022
Something went wrong with the screensaver Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#392 · 66 comments · 12 reactions · Opened Aug 2, 2021
Screen not immediately locked after standby Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#373 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 12, 2021
Issue with lockscreen on resuming from suspend Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#342 · 32 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 10, 2020
[Feature Request] increase "screensaver" variety and options Open

FEATURE REQUEST

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#306 · 16 comments · Opened Feb 6, 2019
Suspend on idle not working again after wake-up for sheduled task Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#260 · 2 comments · Opened Jan 3, 2018
Sometimes after resuming from suspend cinnamon gets stuck at lock screen without displaying password box Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#219 · 77 comments · Opened Mar 25, 2017
[Feature request] Show the battery state as percentage Open

FEATURE REQUEST

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#213 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 7, 2017
PAM cinnamon-screensaver does not unlock Open

BUG

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

linuxmint/cinnamon-screensaver#209 · 6 comments · Opened Feb 11, 2017

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