screen lock

Patrick Dupre pd520 at york.ac.uk
Tue Nov 23 09:58:58 UTC 2010


On Mon, 22 Nov 2010, sguazt wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Patrick Dupre <pd520 at york.ac.uk> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> in fedora 13, the gnome lock screen (System tab) does not work !
>> After an upgrade from 11 to 12 to 13.
>> I noticed that the option "lock screen does not exist if I log in root
>> (X11).
>> Is there a line command to do it ?
>
> Hi!
>
> I don't use GNOME, but I hope I can help you anyway.
>
> First of all, check the gnome screensaver is really running. For
> instance, from a terminal window try to run:
>
> ps -fe|grep gnome-screen


Thank, you are right. I need to laod gnome-screensaver.
It is not a service. So, when/where should I start it ?

>
> If it is running, try to run the following command from a terminal window:
>
> gnome-screensaver-command --lock
>
>
> Best,
>
> -- Marco
>

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