On 09/09/11 18:20, John A. Sullivan III wrote: > 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 The xscreensaver daemon is certainly running; it shows up in htop and I can lock the screen manually. --Aidan