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XScreenSaver does not recognise password

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de>
Cc: 29211 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29211: XScreenSaver does not recognise password
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 15:05:19 +0100

Hi Diego,

Diego Nicola Barbato <dnbarbato <at> posteo.de> skribis:

> When I lock my screen with XScreenSaver by first running
> `xscreensaver &' and then `xscreensaver-command --lock' I am unable to
> unlock the screen by entering my password.  This happens even though I
> have added `(screen-locker-service xscreensaver "xscreensaver")' to my
> services in my `config.scm'.
> I run StumpWM on GuixSD.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Diego
>
> P.S. I am not sure whether this is relevant but this bug seems to
> coincide with a change in the time displayed on the unlock dialog:  It
> no longer displays the wrong time (two hours behind the output of
> `date') and the format has changed from a 24h format to one using AM and
> PM.

To me that suggests ‘xscreensaver’ is taken from your profile (or the
global profile) instead of being taken from
/run/setuid-programs/xscreensaver.

What does “type -P xscreensaver” display?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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