[arch-general] Screen lock stopped working

David Rosenstrauch darose at darose.net
Sun Sep 18 15:46:56 UTC 2016


On 09/18/2016 10:45 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 10:23:41 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>> On 09/18/2016 01:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>>> On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 12:14:30 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
>>>> I'm running XFCE desktop btw.
>>>
>>> On Arch Linux using Xfce not necessarily explains what screen lock /
>>> screensaver you are using.
>>>
>>
>> xflock4/xscreensaver
>
> Ok...
>
> [rocketmouse at archlinux ~]$ pacman -Si xfce4-session | grep lock
>                   xscreensaver: for locking screen with xflock4
>                   gnome-screensaver: for locking screen with xflock4
>                   xlockmore: for locking screen with xflock4
>                   slock: for locking screen with xflock4
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xfce#Lock_the_screen
>
> ... and from where did you get the information that xscreensaver is
> used? Is nothing lese installed?
>
> I don't know how to find out, I'm neither using a screensaver, nor do I
> use Xfce4 anymore.
>
> Perhaps
>
> xfconf-query -l
> xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-manager -lv
>
> ?
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>


Well I only have xscreensaver installed, not gnome-screensaver, so I'd 
think it must be using that.

Thanks,

DR


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