Dotan Cohen posted on Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:50:49 +0300 as excerpted:
> On 22 April 2010 21:47, Edgar Kalkowski <eMail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>> Am oder ungefähr am Donnerstag, 22. April 2010, schrieb Dotan Cohen:
>>> What must I break to disable the "Lock Screen" feature? This is
>>> constantly getting a particular user in trouble.
>>
>> One radical thing you could do is to remove or rewrite
>> /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kscreenlocker. This is what I do to make KDE use
>> xscreensaver rather than kscreensaver for locking the screen.
>>
>>
> Terrific, thank you!
Hmm, interesting.
I have the opposite issue, I can't lock-screen. If I try, I get a dialog
saying the screen wont' be locked as there's no greeter plugin configured
to let me back in. I've guessed it was because I don't have the full KDE
installed, only the general base and selected apps, but I don't know what
to install to get the functionality.
But I already have kscreenlocker. equery (gentoo) says it's part of the
krunner package. So that wouldn't appear to be the issue. I wish this
"greeter plugin" thing was described less vaguely, so I had some idea what
I was supposed to install to get it.
That said, as it's normally just me on the machines, it hasn't been a big
enough issue to bother doing a lot to figure out why. I just know I don't
have it.
Which is why this thread is so interesting, both for the hint it provides
(even if I have kscreenlocker itself), and because if Dotan and I could
just switch problems, neither one of us would have a problem! =:^)
... Just googled it. That was fast! About a 2-minute Google is all, once
I decided to actually do it! Way shorter than writing this reply! Seems
the greeter plugin is a part of the kdm package, at least for most distros
(I've not checked Gentoo yet, only googled the general problem and fix).
As I do a text login and startx with kde set as my xsession from there,
I've not needed and don't have kdm installed. Now that I know where the
thing is, I may still choose not to install it, but at least I know where
it is, if I decide to.
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
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