[Bug 902850] New: Lock Screen does not work in xmonad-gnome session

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902850

Bug ID: 902850
           Summary: Lock Screen does not work in xmonad-gnome session
           Product: Fedora
           Version: 18
         Component: xmonad
          Severity: medium
          Priority: unspecified
          Reporter: [e-mail]

Description of problem:
When "Lock Screen" is selected in the xmonad-gnome session nothing happens.
Running "gnome-screensaver-command -l" in terminal produces no output.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Version: 0.10
Release: 17.fc18

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Login to xmonad-gnome session
2. Select "Lock Screen" from the menu in the top right corner.

Actual results:
Nothing

Expected results:
Lock screen appears

[Bug 902850] Lock Screen does not work in xmonad-gnome session

[Red Hat Bugzilla]

Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902850

--- Comment #1 from Richard Connon  ---
Further to the above. It works fine in a standard gnome session.

More relevant software versions:

gnome-screensaver-3.6.1-1.fc18.x86_64
xmonad-gnome-0.10-17.fc18.x86_64

[Bug 902850] Lock Screen does not work in xmonad-gnome session

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Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902850

Jens Petersen  changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Jens Petersen  ---
Thanks for the report - I can reproduce this.

As a workaround you could add:

$ cat >> ~/.xmonad/session
gnome-screensaver &
^D

But I am not sure why gnome-session is not starting gnome-screensaver
for an xmonad session - gnome-session management is still a bit of
a mystery/black-art to me... :)

But maybe we should just start it by hand if available in xmonad-start
for now for gnome sessions.

(It might also be better to move xmonad-gnome to a separate package
but that is another story.)

BTW I just tested and same problem seems to happen for
other alternative gnome sessions too (eg Openbox and E16).
So seems this problem may not be specific to xmonad.

[Bug 902850] Lock Screen does not work in xmonad-gnome session

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Product: Fedora
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902850

Jens Petersen  changed:

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--- Comment #3 from Jens Petersen  ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> But maybe we should just start it by hand if available in xmonad-start
> for now for gnome sessions.

I added this workaround to rawhide (f19 git) now,
and also added gnome-screensaver to @xmonad-gnome in comps-f19.
These can probably be backported later to F18.

[Bug 902850] Lock Screen does not work in xmonad-gnome session

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902850

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[Bug 902850] Lock Screen does not work in xmonad-gnome session

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=902850

Jens Petersen  changed:

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             Status|MODIFIED                    |CLOSED
         Resolution|---                         |WONTFIX
        Last Closed|                            |2014-01-22 20:42:35

--- Comment #5 from Jens Petersen  ---
Fix was in F19 before it moved to xmonad-mate.