Bug 451130 – cinnamon lock screen does not work with gnome 3.6

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED TEST-REQUEST

[Description Ferry 2013-01-10 08:42:24 UTC]

Since upgrading to gnome/gtk 3.6 and cinnamon 1.6.7 (was originally still on 1.6.1 iirc it had the same issue the 1.6.7 came a bit later than 3.6 iirc) the lock screen no longer works. Probably the screensaver neither, but I don't care about that just don't want anyone able to access my laptop when I leave it.

This is probably the issue: https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon/pull/1273

Running fairly standard ~amd64. Not sure how to debug it, nothing shows up in logs, gnome-screensaver-command -l just returns too, no errors, no lock.

TIA

[Comment 1 Antoine Lemoine 2013-01-15 13:50:23 UTC]

I encounter the same problem. Actually, gnome-screensaver.desktop is already present in the /etc/xdg/autostart directory. I have also noticed that nemo-autostart.desktop is not launch at the session start. I think that a script fails to launch the content of /etc/xdg/autostart.

[Comment 2 Antoine Lemoine 2013-01-15 14:12:43 UTC]

Not sure about nemo. nemo and nautilus are in competition in the autostart directory. Maybe not the same issue.

(In reply to comment #1)
> I encounter the same problem. Actually, gnome-screensaver.desktop is already
> present in the /etc/xdg/autostart directory. I have also noticed that
> nemo-autostart.desktop is not launch at the session start. I think that a
> script fails to launch the content of /etc/xdg/autostart.

[Comment 3 Antoine Lemoine 2013-01-15 21:11:27 UTC]

gnome-screensaver is launched at session start if I replace
"AutostartCondition=GNOME3 if-session gnome-fallback"
by
"AutostartCondition=GNOME3 if-session cinnamon"
in /etc/xdg/autostart/gnome-screensaver.desktop

I suggest to create cinnamon-screensaver.desktop as a copy of gnome-screensaver.desktop including this modification to not interfere with gnome files.

[Comment 4 Denny Reeh 2013-03-06 19:08:46 UTC]

same problem for me

[Comment 5 Uwe Breidenbach 2013-03-20 11:56:21 UTC]

Autostarting the gnome-screensaver does not work for me either. But I can run it manualy by calling 'gnome-screensaver &' as user after login.

[Comment 6 Austin English (RETIRED) 2013-07-30 17:43:40 UTC]

I'm also seeing this issue:

austin@aw25 ~ $ gnome-screensaver-command -l
austin@aw25 ~ $ 

(and the screen does not lock)

gnome-extra/gnome-screensaver is 3.6.1
gnome-extra/cinnamon is 1.6.7

[Comment 7 Pacho Ramos 2013-09-01 08:50:30 UTC]

+*cinnamon-1.8.8.1 (01 Sep 2013)
+
+  01 Sep 2013; Pacho Ramos <[e-mail]> +cinnamon-1.8.8.1.ebuild,
+  +files/background.patch, +files/bluetooth_obex_transfer.patch,
+  +files/cinnamon-1.7.8-settings-lspci.patch,
+  +files/cinnamon-screensaver.desktop, +files/cinnamon2d-screensaver.desktop,
+  +files/fix-control-center-check.patch, +files/idle-dim.patch,
+  +files/keyboard_applet.patch, +files/menu_editor.patch,
+  +files/remove_GC.patch, +files/screensaver.patch, -cinnamon-1.6.7-r1.ebuild:
+  Version bump
+

Try with this version