Re: Xfce: manual lock screen
On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 22:55 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote:
> On 18/11/2011 22:22, 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.
>
> Are you sure you checked out the Properties for the plugin? There's a
> dropdown list for what the button actually does including Lock.
Sorry, I've forgotten that there is the option for a second button. I
disabled it, since the icons would become to small.
> > 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.
>
> That's an X related issue/feature, X disabled ctrl+alt+backspace in fact
> that doesn't lock the screen it restarts X (just google it)
I know and usually this do work for Linux distros OOTB, but for Debian
it's not the default setting.
>
> Lorenzo
> >
> > I pushed Alt + F2 and then run xflock4, then the screen gets locked, but
> > it won't get black.
> >
> > Hth,
> >
> > Ralf
> >
> >
>
>
Reply to: