On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 13:15:15 +0100
Martin Sourada <martin.sourada(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
I believe many people may call this nitpicking, but it has been a
long-standing issue that xfce isn't able to work with any other
screensaver than the most simple ones or xscreensaver without changing
xflock4 shell script. I don't mind that xscreensaver is simple and
ugly -- it's just an ui for locking the screen for me, but it has
severe usability problems. I noticed two:
* I cannot tell which keyboard layout I'm using. Is it US, is it CZ?
Is it qwerty, qwertz, dvorak, whatever?
* I cannot switch users that way (imagine a second person coming to
a locked computer).
I solved these issues easily by switching to mate-screensaver, but as
it's not officially supported by xflock4, I have to edit the script
every time I update xfce4-session package which is suboptimal,
especially given, the patch is fairly simple.
Can we consider adding support for all fedora/epel included
screensavers into xflock4 with such simple patch, until xflock4 is
rewritten upstream?
Reference bugs:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10217
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166227
I have been trying to wait for upstream to pick some route forward here
before we commit to having to carry a patch for a long time. ;(
All the patches I have seen have been broken for various cases...
:(
kevin