From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de>
Cc: 29211@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29211: XScreenSaver does not recognise password
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:05:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mv3wuaqo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87o9oc528t.fsf@GlaDOS.home> (Diego Nicola Barbato's message of "Wed, 08 Nov 2017 14:28:02 +0100")
Hi Diego,
Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato@posteo.de> skribis:
> When I lock my screen with XScreenSaver by first running
> `xscreensaver &' and then `xscreensaver-command --lock' I am unable to
> unlock the screen by entering my password. This happens even though I
> have added `(screen-locker-service xscreensaver "xscreensaver")' to my
> services in my `config.scm'.
> I run StumpWM on GuixSD.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Diego
>
> P.S. I am not sure whether this is relevant but this bug seems to
> coincide with a change in the time displayed on the unlock dialog: It
> no longer displays the wrong time (two hours behind the output of
> `date') and the format has changed from a 24h format to one using AM and
> PM.
To me that suggests ‘xscreensaver’ is taken from your profile (or the
global profile) instead of being taken from
/run/setuid-programs/xscreensaver.
What does “type -P xscreensaver” display?
Thanks,
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-08 14:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-08 13:28 bug#29211: XScreenSaver does not recognise password Diego Nicola Barbato
2017-11-08 14:05 ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2017-11-08 15:16 ` Diego Nicola Barbato
2017-11-08 16:21 ` Diego Nicola Barbato
2017-11-08 20:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
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