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rsupremo

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Registered: 2014-11-30

Posts: 13

[SOLVED] Screensaver / screenlock does not work from Cinnamon

I have installed

cinnamon 3.2.7-1
cinnamon-screensaver 3.2.13-1

but when I try to lock my screen from cinnamon it does not work.

In journalctl I get:

Jan 01 22:27:40 archangel /usr/lib/gdm/gdm-x-session[558]: Can't connect to screensaver!

When I run

xscreensaver-command --lock

I get:

xscreensaver-command: no screensaver is running on display :0

Then running

 xscreensaver-demo

complains about screen saver not running as well but at least starts it for me when I press ok.

So then  xscreensaver-command --lock works but running it from Cinnamon still fails with the same messages.

Any idea how I can solve this or debug this ?
How can I ensure that the screen server is running so I can use xscreen-server command ?

Last edited by rsupremo (2017-01-01 21:53:16)

Head_on_a_Stick

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From: The Wirral

Registered: 2014-02-20

Posts: 9,003

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Re: [SOLVED] Screensaver / screenlock does not work from Cinnamon

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52316

EDIT: please search before posting, there is another thread about this already.

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2017-01-01 21:45:08)

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