Screen Locking doesn't work with gnome 3.6

[bjo81]

Screen Locking doesn't work. After suspending, pressing ctrl+alt+l or choosing it from the menu, nothing happens.

1.6.1 and master are affected.

[bjo81]

"gnome-screensaver-command -l" has no effect, too.

[leigh123linux]

Close this bug report and file one against gnome-screensaver instead

[bjo81]

Well, gnome-screensaver runs fine under gnome-shell.

[leigh123linux]

You are wrong, gnome-screensaver is disabled in any accelerated sessions eg: gnome-shell or cinnamon

This commit stop screensaver from starting except for fallback sessions

http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-screensaver/commit/?id=3d44b1f3844f344092901b307bd195a01769c3a5

[bimsebasse]

I don't think that makes sense, Leigh. It's not a Gnome bug, and Cinnamon now in Gnome 3.6 not having a functional screen locker seems to qualify as a Cinnamon "bug" even if entirely caused by upstream changes.

Maybe the new native Gnome Shell screen lock feature can be ported to Cinnamon?

[dalcde]

I don't think it would be wise to implement a JS screen lock. How about replacing gnome-screensaver's desktop file?

[leigh123linux]

@dalcde It is poor practice to replace files from over packages.
It would be better to add additional xdg startup files to cinnamon.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6907158/cinnamon2d-screensaver.desktop

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/6907158/cinnamon-screensaver.desktop

[leigh123linux]

Pull request submitted #1273

[bjo81]

@leigh123linux Great, thanks!

[shalom938]

Any workaround for that? as simple as it sounds this stops me from using cinnamon because I leave my laptop at customer sites when I'm on launch brakes and such and I must have a working lock and also after suspend.

[dalcde]

We are developing cinnamon-screensaver as a replacement.