[LightDM] Triggering LightDM's lockscreen or user switcher

Guido Berhoerster gber at opensuse.org
Fri Sep 30 13:20:16 PDT 2011


* Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org> [2011-09-30 21:03]:
> On ven., 2011-09-30 at 12:44 -0400, Nikita Nikishin wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I am working on integrating a few DM's into XFCE's logout button. I've
> > found commands to lock GDM and XScreensaver:
> > 
> >     gnome-screensaver-command -l
> > 
> > And:
> > 
> >     xscreensaver-command -lock
> 
> Shouldn't you use xdg-screensaver or xflock4?

I would recommend to never ever use those since they do not lock
the screen reliably, their logic of determining the screensaver
to use is inherently flawed.

-- 
Guido Berhoerster


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