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Unable to unlock xscreensaver in Xfce

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From: Albin <albin <at> fripost.org>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
Cc: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>, 23286 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23286: Unable to unlock xscreensaver in Xfce
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 22:15:23 +0200

Den 2016-04-23 kl. 20:28, skrev Danny Milosavljevic:
> On Sat, 23 Apr 2016 20:22:52 +0200
> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> weird. It works for me here. I did the same as you did. (although I'm using fluxbox)
>>
>> What happens when you run 
>>
>>    xlock 
>>
>> manually?

Hi!

This starts the screensaver and I'm now able to enter my password to
unlock.  The unlock screen looks a bit different though.

> (just to clarify: as your normal user)
> 
> Also, what does
> 
>    which xlock
> 
> say?

/run/setuid-programs/xlock

> 
> How about
> 
>     ls -l $(which xlock)
> 
> ?
> 

-r-sr-sr-x 3 root root 1684296 1 jan  1970 /run/setuid-programs/xlock

Albin

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