Unwanted screen lock

Sam Varshavchik mrsam at courier-mta.com
Sun Jan 25 23:04:29 UTC 2015


Philip Keogh writes:

> On Sun, 25 Jan 2015, Philip Keogh wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Jan 2015, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>>> I installed the F21 XFCE spin. When the laptop wakes up after a
>>> suspend, the screen is locked, with a password prompt.
>>>
>>> I've disabled the option to lock the screen both in the XFCE Power
>>> Manager, and in screensaver settings, but the display is still locked.
>>> Anyone has any idea why the screen is still locked?
>>>
>>
>> Did you ensure light-locker was removed, along with the
>> light-locker.desktop entry in the autostart folder?
>>
>
> Fedora 21 xfce uses xflock4 actually - it hasn't shifted to light-locker
> (a gnome-screensaver fork) as Xubuntu did. xscreensaver is also
> installed, and has a -lock option which may be utilized elsewhere too.

The XFCE spin installs xscreensaver, and that's what I got. I have the  
locking option turn off both in xscreensaver and in power management, yet  
the laptop still wakes up with the display locked. Annoying.

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