Opened 6 months ago
Closed 6 months ago
#17418 closed enhancement (duplicate)
Add "xscreensaver" as recommended dependency for "xfce4-power-manager"
Reported by: | rainer | Owned by: | blfs-book |
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Priority: | normal | Milestone: | 11.3 |
Component: | BOOK | Version: | git |
Severity: | normal | Keywords: | xfce, screenlocking, xscreensaver, xfce-power-manager |
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Description
Screenlocking in xfce seems to require a screensaver to be installed (personal experience and [1]).
Provided this is correct and not due to a misconfiguration or some hidden option that I haven't found yet, xscreensaver should be a recommended dependency for xfce4-power-manager.
Because without a screensaver the screen is not locked after resume from suspend/hibernate, even if that option is selected in "Powermanagement/System" and/or "Session". This may be confusing for the user and may also be a security concern.
I have tested this with xfce4-screensaver-4.16.0 and xfce-4.18.0 in a SysV-system but I suppose that xscreensaver will work accordingly (see /usr/bin/xflock4).
My first ticket here, so I ask for some lenience. Thanks.
Rainer
In my expierience you are right that xflock4 needs some screensaver to be installed, but xflock4 is part of xfce4-session, so the dependency should really go to xfce4-session.
xflock4 has the following sequence / fallbacks:
Therefore I'd suggest to add those as recommended dependencies to xfce4-session, and not to xfce4-power-manager.
Is this ok with you? As I'm in the process of updating the book to 4.18, I could do that in that changeset.
Therefore, I will close this and mark this as a duplice to https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/17409