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Re: Xfce: manual lock screen



On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 22:22 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:57 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
> > Hello List:
> > 
> > is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Jerome
> 
> Good point!
> 
> Applications > Settings > Settings Manager > Keyboard > Application
> Shortcuts says that Ctrl + Alt + Delete should do the job, but it
> doesn't. The "Action Buttons" plugin information includes "lock", but
> the plugin doesn't add a lock option.
> 
> Btw. for my Debian I'm missing Ctrl + Alt + Backspace, nothing happens
> if I push the shortcut, neither for GNOME 2 and GNOME 3, nor for Xfce.
> 
> I pushed Alt + F2 and then run xflock4, then the screen gets locked, but
> it won't get black.
> 
> Hth,
> 
> Ralf

PS: I guess I add a launcher for xflock4 and off topic, I'll also add
launchers to switch between CPU frequency scaling governors to the
panel.



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