Hi again! I suppose what I would like to figure out is why it doesn't work to lock my screen using light-locker from the command line. Unfortunately I'm not a huge fan of the visuals of xscreensaver and would like to stay with light-locker if possible. Thomas On Thu, 22 Nov 2018, 19:55 Adam Sjøgren, wrote:

Thomas writes:

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Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Not quite what you are asking for, perphaps, but I use xscreensaver to lock my screen, which I just start in a login-script with the "-no-splash" option, and lock using a key: ("M-S-l", spawn "xscreensaver-command -activate")

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Adam

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Hi Adam, If you are willing to try something else, I can recommend slock, which works perfectly with XMonad and is extremely barebones. https://tools.suckless.org/slock/ Br, Rasmus Edgar Brandon Allbery skrev den 2018-11-22 21:44:

Something's wrong with connectivity to dbus. Would have to see how your session is set up to know what's going on.

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 3:43 PM Thomas Järvstrand wrote: Hi again! I suppose what I would like to figure out is why it doesn't work to lock my screen using light-locker from the command line. Unfortunately I'm not a huge fan of the visuals of xscreensaver and would like to stay with light-locker if possible.

Thomas

On Thu, 22 Nov 2018, 19:55 Adam Sjøgren, wrote: Thomas writes:

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Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

Not quite what you are asking for, perphaps, but I use xscreensaver to lock my screen, which I just start in a login-script with the "-no-splash" option, and lock using a key: ("M-S-l", spawn "xscreensaver-command -activate")

Best regards,

Adam

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Thanks for the reply! I do however believe that it is related to xmonad somehow, or at least how I'm starting it, since the same command works fine when I'm in a qtile session. Unfortunately I'm very much a newbie when in comes to DBus and systemd Thomas On Sat, 24 Nov 2018, 10:12 Paul Fertser, wrote:

Hello,

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 05:45:53PM +0100, Thomas Järvstrand wrote:

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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.

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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.

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Awesome, thank you a million! It wasn't the actual issue but it pointed me in the right direction! The problem was that ~/.dbus and its contents were owned by root and not readable by my user. Deleting the directory solved the problem. Thanks again! Thomas lör 24 nov. 2018 kl 19:40 skrev Brandon Allbery :

The difference is that xmonad doesn't start a dbus session for you. Look at the dbus-launch command for how to start a session, depending on how that session is set up. For example, if you are using .xsession, you'll want to use the eval version to make it available to everything launched from .xsession instead of only from xmonad.

On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 1:37 PM Thomas Järvstrand wrote:

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Thanks for the reply! I do however believe that it is related to xmonad somehow, or at least how I'm starting it, since the same command works fine when I'm in a qtile session. Unfortunately I'm very much a newbie when in comes to DBus and systemd

Thomas

On Sat, 24 Nov 2018, 10:12 Paul Fertser, wrote:

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Hello,

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 05:45:53PM +0100, Thomas Järvstrand wrote:

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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

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