On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 22:55 +0100, Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > On 18/11/2011 22:22, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Fri, 2011-11-18 at 16:57 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > >> Hello List: > >> > >> is there a way to lock the screen manually within Xfce (as within Gnome) ? > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> Jerome > > > > Good point! > > > > Applications> Settings> Settings Manager> Keyboard> Application > > Shortcuts says that Ctrl + Alt + Delete should do the job, but it > > doesn't. The "Action Buttons" plugin information includes "lock", but > > the plugin doesn't add a lock option. > > Are you sure you checked out the Properties for the plugin? There's a > dropdown list for what the button actually does including Lock.
Sorry, I've forgotten that there is the option for a second button. I disabled it, since the icons would become to small. > > Btw. for my Debian I'm missing Ctrl + Alt + Backspace, nothing happens > > if I push the shortcut, neither for GNOME 2 and GNOME 3, nor for Xfce. > > That's an X related issue/feature, X disabled ctrl+alt+backspace in fact > that doesn't lock the screen it restarts X (just google it) I know and usually this do work for Linux distros OOTB, but for Debian it's not the default setting. > > Lorenzo > > > > I pushed Alt + F2 and then run xflock4, then the screen gets locked, but > > it won't get black. > > > > Hth, > > > > Ralf > > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1321665782.2762.34.camel@debian
