Cannot lock screen

[Rex Dieter]

On 06/28/2012 08:37 AM, Emmett Culley wrote:
> For the last few Fedora releases I have not been able to lock my screen
> except using the command line. The command line that I use is:
>
> /usr/libexec/kde4/kscreenlocker --forcelock --daemon
>
> I can also get the screen to lock on timeout by causing the above script
> to run via the power management systems settings dialog. Without adding
> the script definition the screen only goes dark. Checking the "Lock
> screen on resume" has no effect.
>
> Selecting Lock from the menu or clicking on the lock widget has no
> effect. When I first installed Fedora 17 those methods did not work
> until after the first full update, then stopped on a subsequent full
> update.
>
> I even installed Fedora 17 fresh, instead of updating as I did for two
> previous releases, so as to start with a fresh ~/.kde directory.
>
> How can I troubleshoot this? Where do I find how the Lock menu item is
> programmed and how do I find out what the lock widget is supposed to do.

Does this work?

qdbus org.kde.screensaver /ScreenSaver \
    org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver.SetActive 1


-- rex