Hello, On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 05:45:53PM +0100, Thomas Järvstrand wrote:
having trouble locking my screen using light-locker-command. When calling "light-locker-command -l" from the command line, I get the this back: "Received error message from the locker: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver was not provided by any .service files"
This means that the application is trying to use an FDO DBus API to do the actual locking. And indeed, its description says: It relies on lightdm for locking and unlocking your session via ConsoleKit/UPower or logind/systemd.
I'm running Ubuntu's mini.iso, lightdm, and a simple session file that just
So since you're using lightdm already what you need to figure out is what package exactly is supposed to be providing org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver on your system. I hope your distro people can help figuring that out, the issue seems to be absolutely unrelated to XMonad. HTH -- Be free, use free (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) software! mailto:fercerpav@gmail.com