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xorg-server package

  1. Bug #49579
  2. Comment #6

Comment 6 for bug 49579

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Paolo Montrasio (paolo-paolomontrasio) wrote : Re: screen doesn't lock when panel menu is open

If I can add a word, there are no clear logical connections between locking the screen and the screensaver. I don't use any screensaver but I still want to be able to lock the screen when I'm away so I was very surprised when clicking on Lock Screen produced no result. If that were worded Start Screensaver I would have understood, but I'd also have expected to see the screesaver start.

By the way, I'm on Jaunty and
$ dbus-send --print-reply --reply-timeout=100 --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver / org.gnome.ScreenSaver.Lock

gives:

Error org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.gnome.ScreenSaver was not provided by any .service files

which might be a hint to another problem. I can see the previews of all the installed screensaver but they never start even if I enable them.