Disable ScreenSaver does not work with Xfce

[sergiobenrocha2]

"Disable ScreenSaver" does not work with Xfce.

M64Py git version, Xubuntu 14.04, 64 bits.

[sergiobenrocha2]

Frontend: INFO: ScreenSaver not available: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver was not provided by any .service files

[gen2brain]

You will have to install package that provides org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver service, gnome-screensaver, kscreensaver, cinnamon-screensaver, mate-screensaver etc. I didn't used xfce for some time but as I remember they didn't have something like xfce-screensaver, and plain xscreensaver package will not provide dbus service.

[sergiobenrocha2]

Xubuntu does not use xscreensaver, instead it uses Light Locker.

[gen2brain]

So Xubuntu by default doesn't use screensavers. That light locker is just a locker, replace it with something else if you want that to work. Anyway, nothing I can do there, M64Py uses freedesktop standard and Xubuntu/Light Locker doesn't implement it.

[sergiobenrocha2]

Are you sure it does not implement freedesktop standard? It's a fork from gnome-screensaver:

https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker

[gen2brain]

I am not sure, looks like it doesn't, but whatever, it is out of scope for m64py, try to ask them what is with org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver service. I don't think there is xubuntu specific way to enable/disable ss, this is standard, and it works where available.

[sergiobenrocha2]

It seems it's already implemented, but not in 14.04:

the-cavalry/light-locker@dfcfc98

Thanks!