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I erred in not excluding xlockmore when I reinstalled Mageia 4.1. When I try to uninstall it wants to uninstall half my Mate desktop. How can I either get rid of it or increase the time between keystrokes before it locks my screen?

Not answering your question, but Mageia 4.1... it may be a time to reinstall the system?
Maybe hold out a couple weeks and install Mageia 6.1 when it is released?

I did a few weeks ago, and it was disastrous. I deleted some partitions prior to installing 6.0, the remaining partitions were re-numbered and the bootloader could no longer recognize them and couldn't boot 4.1. Meanwhile, I couldn't find my monitor in the monitor list and ended up with an unreadable screen on the desktop. I installed a new 4.1 from dvd on the partitions I'd used for 6.0 in order to get a usable system. That's when xlockmore showed up and became a pita. I must have unchecked it in my original 4.1 install without consequences. That's how I know, or think I know, that the Mate panel, Mate-task, etc. aren't REALLY its dependencies, it's just treated that way once the system is installed. I just finished installing 6.0 a second time, having blanked the rest of my drive and making new partitions for it, was able to find the equivalent of my monitor in the monitor list this time, and have ferried my files from the second 4.1 (after mounting the partitions) to 6.0. Still got xlockmore, though -- didn't see it and get a chance to uncheck it in the install process -- and it still offers to basically uninstall my Mate desktop if I try to uninstall it in the Mageia Control Center (grrrrr!). I don't know yet if it's going to, like before, blank my screen while I'm in the middle of reading something or reading while trying to follow directions to do something. So yes, you didn't answer my question, two, I have installed 6.0, and three, I still would kinda like to know how to uninstall that sumbitch.

I'm wondering what you actually installed (minimal mate install?) and what screensaver you chose or what options you configured, as mate should use mate-screensaver by default.
What screensaver did you choose, can you try one that does not come from xscreensaver package ?

It should be possible to disable screen locking as user via

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gsettings set org.mate.screensaver lock-enabled false

but you still need to check what screensaver settings and power management settings you have configured.