Bug#922718: /usr/bin/xflock4: please support xfce4-screensaver
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On Tue, 2019-02-19 at 21:54 +0100, Dominik George wrote:
> Control: retitle -1 screen locking does not work without lightdm
> Control: severity -1 important
>
> > In xflock4, please support xfce4-screensaver, which is a mate-screensaver
> > fork targeted at Xfce4 integration.
> >
> > If installed, it should get the same priority as mate-screensaver
> > (probably
> > one higher).
I've prepared a local patch to xfce4-session 4.13 (targeted at experimental).
>
> If possible, please also recommend xfce4-screensaver in xfce4-session.
> This ensures screen locking works out of the box in environments without
> lightdm running, e.g. under X2go or RDP, in an LTSP environment using
> LDM, and probably quite a few others.
>
> A patch is attached.
NACK for now. First, xfce4-screensaver was never intended for Buster, second
I'm not sure at all I want to actually replace lightdm/light-locker by xfce4-
screensaver.
>
> I would very much suggest to upload this as a Debian patch before buster
> full freeze, even though it should of course be fixed upstream. I
> personally know about some hundred desktops that do not (aand cannot)
> use lightdm (see above), so this breaks quite an important use case if
> not fixed.
Again, no, this will be decided for Bullseye.
Regards,
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Yves-Alexis
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