many kblankscrn.kss processes

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#1

Deal all,

After upgrading to opensuse 13.1 from 12.3 , I started to get these processes . googling shows bug reports, kill/logout advises , didn’t help:
My hardware is sony vaio E series laptop .

$ ps -ef | grep kblankscrn.kss

ce 1881 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 60817460
ce 2420 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 20971572
ce 3456 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 20971572
ce 4345 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 25165876
ce 8381 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 31457332
ce 8836 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 46137396
ce 9382 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 60817460
ce 10203 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 20971572
ce 10538 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 20971572
ce 13789 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 81788980
ce 14357 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 20971572
ce 15338 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 60817460
ce 23978 1 0 08:13 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 25165876
ce 32487 1 0 Feb16 ? 00:00:00 kblankscrn.kss -window-id 20971572

#2

That’s this long standing bug, that already was there in 12.3:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=224200

This should kill all of them:

killall kblankscrn.kss

As a workaround you could set a different screensaver (not all of them have this problem) or just use the “Simple Screenlocker”.

But the blank screensaver shouldn’t really take any resources anyway, so you can probably just ignore it.