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 > > _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing > list CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > 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 :-) Kind Regards, Jake Shipton (JakeMS) GPG Key: 0xE3C31D8F GPG Fingerprint: 7515 CC63 19BD 06F9 400A DE8A 1D0B A5CF E3C3 1D8F