Ok, trying to bypass the usual flames (I used CDE for years, then KDE until it got dumbed-down too much, and we all know how GNOME has turned out) ... I've decided to try out xfce on CentOS 7.
I grabbed xfce from epel by installing the following via yum: epel-release @xfce
So far it's pretty good, and is giving me the basic features I'm looking at without getting in my way. However, I can't seem to get the damned screen lock function to work.
Leaving the monitor idle doesn't generally do anything. (Although just now, after having left it for a few hours, I got a blank screen with a few vertical narrow white bars that wouldn't respond to any key or mouse movement. Switching to a text console and back to the graphics console, however, brought up the xfce desktop again, but with no screen lock prompt.)
If I select the 'Lock Screen' menu item from the top right corner of the screen it does nothing; doesn't lock the screen, provides no feedback that there's a problem, etc.
The page http://xmodulo.com/control-screen-lock-settings-linux-desktop.html describes (for XFCE) bring up "Settings Manager" => "Screen Saver", but there is no "Screen Saver" option in the Settings Manager.
A clue stick would be appreciated.
Devin
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:43:20 -0600 Devin Reade wrote:
I used CDE for years,
This interests me. Is anyone using CDE on Centos these days?
I've never used CDE myself so I'm wondering how it stacks up against "modern" desktops like KDE and Gnome.
--On Saturday, September 27, 2014 09:50:47 PM -0600 Frank Cox theatre@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
Is anyone using CDE on Centos these days?
I suspect hardly any, if anyone, does. To be clear, when I mentioned CDE was referring when my workstations were Solaris.
Devin
CDE? Shudder!! In spite of the way that modern desktops have turned out I can't imagine anyone using CDE these days. I used to use and loath it on HP/UX back when the Internet was a puppy.
Cheers,
Cliff
On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 4:50 PM, Frank Cox theatre@melvilletheatre.com wrote:
On Sat, 27 Sep 2014 20:43:20 -0600 Devin Reade wrote:
I used CDE for years,
This interests me. Is anyone using CDE on Centos these days?
I've never used CDE myself so I'm wondering how it stacks up against "modern" desktops like KDE and Gnome.
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On 28/09/14 03:43, Devin Reade wrote:
Ok, trying to bypass the usual flames (I used CDE for years, then KDE until it got dumbed-down too much, and we all know how GNOME has turned out) ... I've decided to try out xfce on CentOS 7.
I grabbed xfce from epel by installing the following via yum: epel-release @xfce
So far it's pretty good, and is giving me the basic features I'm looking at without getting in my way. However, I can't seem to get the damned screen lock function to work.
Leaving the monitor idle doesn't generally do anything. (Although just now, after having left it for a few hours, I got a blank screen with a few vertical narrow white bars that wouldn't respond to any key or mouse movement. Switching to a text console and back to the graphics console, however, brought up the xfce desktop again, but with no screen lock prompt.)
If I select the 'Lock Screen' menu item from the top right corner of the screen it does nothing; doesn't lock the screen, provides no feedback that there's a problem, etc.
The page http://xmodulo.com/control-screen-lock-settings-linux-desktop.html
describes (for XFCE) bring up "Settings Manager" => "Screen Saver", but
there is no "Screen Saver" option in the Settings Manager.
A clue stick would be appreciated.
Devin
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Hi,
I also use XFCE4 :-).
My solution was to install xscreensaver and configure/install that.
You can find it in nux's repo :-).
Make sure you start the daemon by running "xscreensaver" in terminal.
use the command "xscreensaver-command -prefs" to configure your options.
Once everything is running it should work!
Good luck :-)
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