Hi all,
I believe many people may call this nitpicking, but it has been a
long-standing issue that xfce isn't able to work with any other
screensaver than the most simple ones or xscreensaver without changing
xflock4 shell script. I don't mind that xscreensaver is simple and ugly
-- it's just an ui for locking the screen for me, but it has severe
usability problems. I noticed two:
* I cannot tell which keyboard layout I'm using. Is it US, is it CZ?
Is it qwerty, qwertz, dvorak, whatever?
* I cannot switch users that way (imagine a second person coming to
a locked computer).
I solved these issues easily by switching to mate-screensaver, but as
it's not officially supported by xflock4, I have to edit the script
every time I update xfce4-session package which is suboptimal,
especially given, the patch is fairly simple.
Can we consider adding support for all fedora/epel included
screensavers into xflock4 with such simple patch, until xflock4 is
rewritten upstream?
Reference bugs:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10217
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1166227
Regards,
Martin