Re: Lock Screen in menu only works when screensaver is configured.

[psychoelmo <psychoelmo gmail com>]

i can understand you not wanting a screen saver to kick in.. but
afaik, that's what locks the screen.. can you set the screensaver
timeout really high and just use blank-screen for the saver?  at least
then the screen wont blank unless it sits, say, overnight or
something, a cpu hog screensaver wont run, and you still have the
ability to lock the screen at the touch of a button.. that's what i do
here. might work for you until something else comes along.

On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:15:57 +0200, Sindre Pedersen Bjordal
<foolish fedoraforum org> wrote:
> The other day I came across this weirdness. I pressed the lock screen
> button in the menu and nothing happened. Nothing, it didn't lock, it
> didn't display any message, nothing.
> 
> I got into #Fedora and asked around, I was answered quickly, I didn't
> have my screen saver configured, that's why lock screen doesn't work.
> 
> I found this rather silly. Locking the screen isn't the same as a screen
> saver. Screen savers pop up when you don't use your computer for a
> while. Lock screen however, is used to prevent other users accessing the
> computer while you're away. I don't use a screen  I've disabled it in
> the screen saver settings, but I do want to lock screen from time to
> time.
> 
> Is there any way we could separate the lock screen and the screen saver,
> so that when I press lock screen, it just works, regardless of my screen
> saver settings? I don't care what the screen displays when my screen is
> locked, I don't care at all. I just want it to lock.
> 
> If it's not possible to separate them, at least give me some kind of
> message saying I should configure my screen saver, the last thing we
> want to happen is nothing at all.
> 
> 
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> Sindre Pedersen Bjordal <foolish fedoraforum org>
> www.fedoraforum.org
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