Odd behavior after xscreensaver unlock in 24.04.1 latest

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 2024-09-14 at 23:17 -0700, MR ZenWiz wrote:
> It has no way I can see for activation other than the screen timeout.
> Xscreensaver can be locked on demand, which I need.

Hi,

I don't have xfce4-screensaver installed, but seemingly

   "xscreensaver-command -lock"

does the trick, https://docs.xfce.org/apps/xfce4-screensaver/faq .

Btw.

  "[snip]
   xflock4 is the reference Bash script which is used to lock an Xfce 
   session.
   [snip]
   To have xflock4 run [snip] any custom session locker [snip] one must
   set LockCommand in the session's xfconf channel to the command line
   to be used (the command inside the quotes in the following example
   can be adapted accordingly for other screen lockers):

   $ xfconf-query --create -c xfce4-session -p /general/LockCommand -t string -s "light-locker-command --lock"
   [snip]" - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xfce#Lock_the_screen

For a list of available screen lockers see
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/List_of_applications/Security#Screen_lockers
and
  https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Session_lock#By_environment
and then check if a particular locker is available as an official Ubuntu package
  https://packages.ubuntu.com/

An example from my machine, running

  $ xflock4

from command line locks the screen using xlock

  $ grep LockCommand ~/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml/xfce4-session.xml
      <property name="LockCommand" type="string" value="xlock -mode blank"/>

You can assign it to a shortcut or add a menu entry.

Regards,
Ralf