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PostPosted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 7:33 pm    Post subject: xautolock seems to do nothing Reply with quote

Trying to set up xautolock to lock the screen, and before even putting it in any startup script, I seem to struggle to get it to work at all.

emergege xautolock:
Code:

*  x11-misc/xautolock
      Latest version available: 2.2_p7
      Latest version installed: 2.2_p7
      Size of files: 43 KiB
      Homepage:      http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/screensavers/
      Description:   An automatic X screen-locker/screen-saver
      License:       GPL-2


The problem is, I don't seem to be able to get it to lock my screen, but I don't get any error messages or any updated logs (that I can see)

In an X session with qtile

I started it in a terminal with
Code:

xautolock -time 2 -locker "betterscreenlocker -l"


Waited for five minutes, still not locked
Started a second terminal, and ran
Code:

xautolock -locknow -locker "betterscreenlocker -l"


But nothing seems to happen.

I use xorg-server 21.1.14
Quote:

* x11-base/xorg-server
Latest version available: 21.1.14
Latest version installed: 21.1.14
Size of files: 4,900 KiB
Homepage: https://www.x.org/wiki/ https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/xorg-server
Description: X.Org X servers
License: MIT


Any ideas?

Betterscreenlocker works by the way, have a shortcut for that using the same command, I am happy to try anything at this stage
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 21, 2024 8:39 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

what package provides
Code:
betterscreenlocker
?

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.
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