Screen saver pops up randomly!?!?

I do not have FileVault enabled.

Interestingly iChat does NOT think I'm idle.

Ed

Rest my pram/nvram and reset my smc with no change.

Please help apple.. This is just plain annoying.

Ed

I just solved it for my 2010 MacBook Pro. I was researching an unrelated problem with 1Password locking all the time. And it turns out to be related.

AgileBits, makers of 1Password reports: "The general class of application that provides any kind of video drivers for screen sharing, supports remote devices or computers as “monitors”, etc. has been identified as needing to either be updated for Lion, or temporarily removed from your system if the software vendor hasn’t yet gotten a compatible update ready."

It appears to be the result of specific apps, including AirDisplay, LaunchBar, and DisplayPad. I was using AirDisplay.

I just uninstalled AirDisplay (via the uninstall script) and rebooted and the screensaver problem has completely been fixed. Thank goodness.

I was going to start uninstalling applications from my machine over the weekend. Now I don't have to go through the trial and error.

Uninstalling Air Display appears to have solved my 1Password and Adium issues. I have only just set my screen saver settings back to how I like them, so hopefully nothing will go wrong now.

Thank you JoeMeg

Uninstalling AirDisplay fixed this issue for me too!

I actually notice that Avatron Software mention this potential issue on their AirDisplay page, and explain how to uninstall: "If you wish to uninstall the Air Display support software on Mac OS X, launch the “Uninstall Air Display” app in Applications > Utilities."

http://avatron.com/apps/air-display

Hopefully there's a fix on the way.

I can confirm that uninstalling fixed the issue for me as well.

What is odd is after my slew of restarts this morning I had an air-display update popup which I installed late this afternoon. After seeing JoeMeg's post I had hopes that the update had fixed this issue but alas, it did not..

Thanks for sharing the fix JoeMeg.

Ed.

Thanks, JoeMeg, for posting this! I had thought about removing Air Display but was also fooled by the recent update.

Thanks again for taking the time to let us know!

Yup, uninstalling AirDisplay appears to have sorted it. The 'require password...' setting still seems not to stick but now that I can actually set an idle timer for the screen saver/lock, that's probably OK.

Thanks!

The fix sounds promising.

I've not tried it yet but I too have airdisplay and also was fooled by the update.

Lion did say airdisplay was incompatible on my first boot into lion but the update seemed to sort that out and turns out it didn't

Thanks JoeMeg!

I uninstalled two prefspanes: iScreen en MagicPrefs. Probably it was iScreen, cuz the problem stopt and the screensaver isn't popping after rebooting. Also at the login screen everthing is fine. Nice!

Thanks for al the reply's peeps!

Daniel

To add to the confirmations. I uninstalled AirDisplay and no screensaver on logon screen or when changing start screensaver time. Skype also shows me as available, so no hiding behind the away status automatically now!

thanks to all the replies, much appreciated

I dont know about screensaver popping up unexpectedly..

But Has anyone encountered a problem when you would like to log back in after the screensaver the screensaver doesnt seem to off?

Its like after i key in password to log back in the screensaver just pops back up and stays there..

Thoughts anyone?

I'm not running lion yet, but have experienced a similar issue, when using synergy. I have 2 mac laptops, and will use Syngery to share a bluetooth keyboard and mouse between them. If I forget to stop Synergy and take the 2nd laptop around my apartment, while still having synergy client running, when the primary laptop triggers the screen saver, it will send the command to my secondary laptop to do the same. Or atleast that is what I think is happening.

For the record, another app causing this issue is the Lion beta of Screen Recycler. http://www.screenrecycler.com/

I had AirDisplay and removing that mostly fixed it. I still get the screensaver jumping on me randoming, but only a few times a day at most. The biggest problem I've noticed however is occasionally the screen is just white when I try to get out of the screensaver or wake up from sleep. I can't login or anything. And sometimes I do see the password prompt but after entering the correct password the screen I get is the login screen and all my apps had been quit. Lion is a lemon for me.