This happens on xfce4-screensaver. The other screensaver that ran after killing xfce4-screensaver does not have this issue.

What other screensaver is running? Any other DE installed as well?

I am also on Fedora 34 and I have not seen this issue (so far).

xscreensaver is the other screensaver that runs after killing xfce4-screensaver.

/usr/bin/xflock4 shows how the session chooses the ss to run.

I have gnome installed, sometimes I run a gnome or gnome-classic session.

If I uninstall xfce4-screensaver the problem doesn't happen.

okay, I wonder if two screensavers are running simultaneously.

Can you check if gnome-screensaver is running when you are on Xfce?

This happens only if I leave the computer alone, and wait until it locks the screen, rather than choose "lock screen" from the menu on the top right of xfce desktop.

Something called gsd-screensaver-proxy is running.

While xfce lock screen is hung up, and running in a different tty:

ps awux|grep screen
chris       3238  0.0  0.5 404652 21660 ?        Ssl  Apr02   0:02 /usr/bin/xfce4-screensaver
chris       3476  0.0  0.1 241832  4372 tty3     S+   Apr02   0:03 xscreensaver -no-splash
chris       3613  0.0  0.0   6808  3300 tty3     SN+  Apr02   0:00 xscreensaver-systemd
chris       4839  0.0  0.1 448172  5620 ?        Sl   Apr02   0:00 /usr/libexec/gsd-screensaver-proxy
chris      15974  0.6  1.0 795980 42964 ?        Sl   09:30   0:00 /usr/libexec/xfce4-screensaver-dialog --monitor=0 --height=768 --width=1366 --enable-switch
chris      16834  0.0  0.0 221528   856 pts/2    S+   09:31   0:00 grep --color=auto screen
[chris@fedellia ~]$ /bin/kill -9 3238


After killing xfce lock screen:

chris       3476  0.0  0.1 241832  4372 tty3     S+   Apr02   0:03 xscreensaver -no-splash
chris       3613  0.0  0.0   6808  3300 tty3     SN+  Apr02   0:00 xscreensaver-systemd
chris       4839  0.0  0.1 448172  5620 ?        Sl   Apr02   0:00 /usr/libexec/gsd-screensaver-proxy
chris      17614  0.0  0.0 221528   792 pts/3    S+   09:35   0:00 grep --color=auto screen

It looks like you also have xscreensaver running in addition to xfce4-screensaver and gnome-screensaver

I think what's going on here is several screensavers are competing for focus and one is "winning out" ...

If you upgraded from a f33 (or older), you may have xscreensaver installed by default. Can you please remove that and ensure it is not running? I expect gnome screensaver is not running under xfce ... hopefully.

I had similar problem and a solution was to remove xscreensaver-base and dependent packages:
```
sudo dnf remove xscreensaver-base
```

Alternatively, if you prefer xscreensaver, then remove xfce4-screensaver package instead.

But there can still be a problem if a computer has more than 1 user that prefer different screensavers. Maybe it should be possible to choose a screensaver application with "xfce4-mime-settings" (Default Applications).

I have this same problem but I think it may be related to lxdm as well as to the screensavers. When I switch to lightdm this problem does not seem to occur.

I am also having issues with the window with focus not being responsive after the screensaver is dismissed.

Just disabling the screensavers, which I did yesterday, does not prevent the screen from locking. I disabled both xfce4-screensaver and the xscreensaver. I have removed all (there were three including the cinnamon-screensaver) screensavers. Display power management is still enabled. I will see if this circumvents the problem.

Are we going to solve it or just offer workarounds? Should xfce4-screensaver installation just remove xscreensaver-base? It is possible, right?

solution will be as listed here - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1957658

closing as duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1957658 ***