Re: Lock screen with Gnome 3 login greeter

2021-09-06 Thread Richard Forst
I have gdm3 running.     $ ps -ef | grep gdm     root 465   1  0 16:57 ?    00:00:00 /usr/sbin/gdm3 I have i3lock installed, but I don't use it. Previously I used xscreensaver, and it worked without a problem. This time I just want to give a test to use gdm style screen lock (s

Re: Lock screen with Gnome 3 login greeter

2021-09-05 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Sun, Sep 05, 2021 at 12:50:43PM +0200, Richard Forst wrote: > > I switched to use i3. So now after the screen goes blank, it won't display > > greeter asking to login again. I read somewhere else on the internet that > > gdm3 (I use Debian 11 with kernel 5.10.0-8-amd64) no longer uses > > scree

Re: Lock screen with Gnome 3 login greeter

2021-09-05 Thread Richard Forst
Ok. The link I found previously is [1]. But executing the command provided in that link doesn't work either. dbus-send --type=method_call \ --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver \ /org/gnome/ScreenSaver \ org.gnome.ScreenSaver.Lock I appreciate any suggestions

Lock screen with Gnome 3 login greeter

2021-09-05 Thread Richard Forst
I switched to use i3. So now after the screen goes blank, it won't display greeter asking to login again. I read somewhere else on the internet that gdm3 (I use Debian 11 with kernel 5.10.0-8-amd64) no longer uses screensaver to lock the session. Instead it uses dbus to activate login asking use