Re: XFCE doesn't lock my screen
On Thu, 23 Jan 2014 00:26:17 +1100
Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
> On 1/22/14, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2014-01-21 at 19:44 -0800, Mike Kupfer wrote:
> >> Stefan Monnier wrote:
> >>
> >> > > Does the screen lock when you run
> >> > > $ xflock4
> >> > > ?
> >> >
> >> > No, it just returns without doing anything.
> >> >
> >> > > What screen saver do you use?
> >> >
> >> > Don't know. I just did "aptitude install xfce4 xfce4-goodies
> >> > xfce4-power-manager" and then used "XFCE" session in GDM.
> >>
> >> IIRC, Xfce normally uses xscreensaver, which needs to have its daemon
> >> running. What does "pgrep xscreensaver" produce? You can (re)start the
> >> daemon from the screensaver settings window (File > Restart Daemon).
> >
> > But why doesn't xflock4 not lock the screen or at least provide some
> > output?
>
> Probably a "wishlist" type bug of xflock4 where it does not (when run)
> check to see if the daemon is actually running and thereafter give a
> message to the user if it is not running...
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513444
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