From: Albin <albin@fripost.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 23286@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23286: Unable to unlock xscreensaver in Xfce
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 22:18:23 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160523221823.7636bae3@fripost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bn3xkxcg.fsf@gnu.org>
Den Mon, 23 May 2016 10:11:27 +0200
skrev Re: bug#23286: Unable to unlock xscreensaver in Xfce:
> Albin <albin@fripost.org> skribis:
>
> > Den Sun, 22 May 2016 23:43:14 +0200
> > skrev Re: bug#23286: Unable to unlock xscreensaver in Xfce:
> >
> >> Albin <albin@fripost.org> skribis:
> >>
> >> > Den Sat, 21 May 2016 06:37:49 +0200
> >>
> >> [...]
> >>
> >> >> Please try to call these manually (in that order) and stop at
> >> >> the first one that doesn't throw an error:
> >> >>
> >> >> $ xscreensaver-command -lock
> >> >
> >> > Unable to unlock.
> >> >
> >> >> $ gnome-screensaver-command --lock
> >> >
> >> > Command not found.
> >> >
> >> >> $ xlock -mode blank
> >> >
> >> > Worked. ('xlock' also worked.)
> >> >
> >> >> $ slock
> >> >
> >> > Worked.
> >>
> >> IIUC, xfce-lock uses one of the above lockers. For them to work,
> >> and if you want to be able to unlock your screen ;-), you need to
> >> make sure you use ‘screen-locker-service’ for each of them.
> >>
> >> So:
> >>
> >> (operating-system
> >> ;; …
> >> (services (cons (screen-locker-service xscreensaver)
> >> %desktop-services)))
> >>
> >
> > This was my original configuration which didn't let me unlock if I
> > had locked with xflock4. Any other ideas?
>
> Oh wait; since the command is called “xscreensaver-command”, not
> “xscreensaver” (well in fact there are both), this should be:
>
> (cons (screen-locker-service xscreensaver "xscreensaver-command")
> %desktop-services)
>
> Could you try this one?
>
It didn't work. I got the same authentication error when tried to
unlock.
> Thanks for your patience. :-)
Likewise! :)
>
> Ludo’.
Albin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-23 20:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-13 21:16 bug#23286: Unable to unlock xscreensaver in Xfce Albin
2016-04-14 16:50 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-19 19:54 ` Andreas Enge
2016-04-20 16:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-04-23 7:55 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-04-23 17:47 ` Albin
2016-04-23 18:22 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-04-23 18:28 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-04-23 20:15 ` Albin
2016-04-24 1:14 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-04-24 14:03 ` Albin
2016-04-26 21:17 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-05-06 18:29 ` Albin
2016-05-18 18:44 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-05-20 17:15 ` Albin
2016-05-20 17:48 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-05-20 20:22 ` Albin
2016-05-20 18:28 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-05-20 18:42 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-05-20 22:36 ` Albin
2016-05-21 4:37 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2016-05-21 8:35 ` Albin
2016-05-22 21:43 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-22 21:56 ` Albin
2016-05-23 8:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2016-05-23 20:18 ` Albin [this message]
2016-04-24 13:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-02-18 14:26 ` bug#23286: Hunting #23286: " zimoun
2020-02-18 21:41 ` raingloom
2020-02-18 22:38 ` zimoun
2020-02-25 20:39 ` Albin
2020-02-28 11:53 ` zimoun
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