Created attachment 33096 [details] Test code This is very odd but entirely reproducable. The attached IDLETIME xsync counter test app installs a 5s idle timer, and prints when it expires and is reset. Running it on my debian sid laptop (xserver 1.7.4) works. Running it on my debian sid laptop via ssh works. Running it on my moblin 2.2 netbook (xserver 1.7.3) works. Running it on my moblin 2.2 netbook via ssh -x fails. The counter is never fired. The alarm is created, but the event is never received. Clearly this is very odd, and probably why my gnome-screensaver is failing to lock. In that case, gnome-screensaver creates two alarms, one 10 seconds after the other. When the first fires the screen blanks, and when the second fires the screen locks. This enables the user to move the mouse when the screen just blanked and they don't have to unlock. However, on my moblin netbook the second alarm never fires.
This is an ssh issue. Use ssh -Y instead. Possibly: See https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1785
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