[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 8993] [PATCH] Extend xflock4 with custom screensaver application support

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https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8993

--- Comment #3 from Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org> ---
(In reply to comment #2)
> > The problem with that is that there will be no consistent behavior with
> > regard to whether xflock4 exits upon locking the screen, tools such as xlock
> > or slock remain in the foreground.
> 
> Is not it possible to make a contract that any custom screensaver
> application specified in that way should run on the background? So for some
> applications which remain in the foreground after start a user will be able
> to create a simple wrapping script which does so.

Yes, you would have to make that a requirement that the custom command exits
after trying to lock the screen. IMHO that's not very elegant but I'm not a
Xfce developer who gets to decide on that.

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