[PATCH] Update xflock4 (Bug 10217) again

Alexander Mezin mezin.alexander at gmail.com
Thu Mar 19 09:55:24 CET 2015


2015-03-19 14:06 GMT+06:00 Guido Berhoerster <gber at opensuse.org>:
> * Alexander Mezin <mezin.alexander at gmail.com> [2015-03-18 21:30]:
>> Based on patch by Jarno Suni.
>>
>> - Use pgrep instead of pidof, which is, hopefully, available
>> everywhere.
>> - Check screensavers running under current uid only.
>
> Process names are never a reliable way to check for the
> screensaver running in the currently active session even if you
> restrict it to a user. See comment #22 on that bug for the way
> forward.

But it's still better than current xflock4.
Maybe merge this patch for now, and replace with something better later?

With current state of Xfce 4.12, I can configure light-locker's
settings from GUI, but the locking itself doesn't work. Isn't it
silly?

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