[xmonad] Can't lock screen with light-locker-command

[Thomas Järvstrand]

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, <fercerpav at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at gmail.com
>
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