Handling locking and other screensaver related things in power manager

[Jarno Suni]

Can you rely on the existence of xflock4 in power manager? If not, one
could use "xdg-screensaver lock" when xflock4 is not available.

On Wed, Mar 31, 2021 at 12:56 PM Jarno Suni <sunijarno at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Currently there is a complicated code deciding how to lock in function
> xfce_screensaver_lock in xfce4-power-manager/src/xfce-screensaver.c
> I think it could be replaced simply by calling xflock4 sychronously.
> I wonder if the power manager has to know about running screensaver
> daemon then? There are functions like xfce_screensaver_inhibit that
> use information about screensaver type, but could that be done by
> xdg-screensaver commands suspend, resume and status (support of which
> should be implemented for xfce4-screensaver)?
>
> I have recently been working with adding support for
> xfce4-screensaver:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-utils/-/merge_requests/38