On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 13:15:15 +0100 Martin Sourada martin.sourada@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