[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#870207: Bug#870207: light-locker-command --lock returns 0 without locking (breaks slock)

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

control: severity -1 important


On Sun, 2017-07-30 at 22:54 +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Package: light-locker
> Version: 1.7.0-3
> Severity: serious
> Justification: breaks unrelated software
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> On my system, 'light-locker-command --lock' returns 0 without doing
> anything.  I presume that is because there no 'light-locker' process is
> running (due to #858445).  In case it's relevant, I don't use lightdm
> either; I login by running 'startx' in a vt.
> 
> That breaks the Ctrl+Alt+Del (lock screen) combination in xfce4, which
> defaults to running xflock4.  xflock4 invokes a number of screen lockers
> and exits whenever any one of them returns true:
> 
>     % sh -x /usr/bin/xflock4
>     + PATH=/bin:/usr/bin
>     + export PATH
>     + xscreensaver-command -lock
>     + light-locker-command --lock
>     + exit
>     (the screen did not lock)
> 
> Could the --lock option please learn to return non-zero when it did not
> lock the screen.   This way, xflock4 would start working again.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Daniel
> 
> P.S. My /usr/bin/xflock4 comes from xfce4-session/4.12.1-5.

Hi,

it should be fixed in light-locker 1.8.0 which I intend to upload soon to
unstable.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis
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