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

[Thomas Järvstrand]

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 <allbery.b at gmail.com>:

> 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 <tjarvstrand at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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