Comment 10 for bug 436724

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 436724] Re: lock screen doesn't work

On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 23:43 +0000, Omegamormegil wrote:
> Lock screen does not work for me either, and I never use auto-login. To
> reiterate, I am prompted for a password when my system boots, and using
> the Indicator Applet Session applet to lock the screen does absolutely
> nothing.

Try this:

  $ dbus-send --print-reply --reply-timeout=100
--dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver / org.gnome.ScreenSaver.Lock

That is the same thing that the session menu is doing.