On Sun, 8 Mar 2015 13:15:15 +0100 Martin Sourada <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I believe many people may call this nitpicking, but it has been a > long-standing issue that xfce isn't able to work with any other > screensaver than the most simple ones or xscreensaver without changing > xflock4 shell script. I don't mind that xscreensaver is simple and > ugly -- it's just an ui for locking the screen for me, but it has > severe usability problems. I noticed two: > * I cannot tell which keyboard layout I'm using. Is it US, is it CZ? > Is it qwerty, qwertz, dvorak, whatever? > * I cannot switch users that way (imagine a second person coming to > a locked computer). > > I solved these issues easily by switching to mate-screensaver, but as > it's not officially supported by xflock4, I have to edit the script > every time I update xfce4-session package which is suboptimal, > especially given, the patch is fairly simple. > > Can we consider adding support for all fedora/epel included > screensavers into xflock4 with such simple patch, until xflock4 is > rewritten upstream? > > Reference bugs: > https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10217 > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166227 I have been trying to wait for upstream to pick some route forward here before we commit to having to carry a patch for a long time. ;( All the patches I have seen have been broken for various cases... :( kevin
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