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Re: Xfce not locking screen on suspend



On Fri, 2011-09-09 at 17:06 +1200, Aidan Gauland wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm using Xfce4.8 from wheezy.  I have ticked the "Lock screen when
> going for suspend/hibernate" checkbox in the "Extended" section of the
> Power Manager settings, but the screen is never locked when I bring my
> computer back from suspend or hibernate.  This appears to be an upstream
> bug, not a bug in the packaging, as this has also been reported in Arch
> Linux: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=80661
> 
> Can anyone else confirm this?
> 
> Thanks,
> Aidan
> 
> 
Could it be the xscreensaver daemon is not running. I found I had to
copy the /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc to ~/.config/xfce4/ AND I had to tell
GDM to explicitly invoke an Xfce session or else it did not read the
xinitrc file - John


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