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I'm new to xfce, after using it for a while i wonder if it is possible to have the login window be displayed on multiple screens simultaneously when you lock the screen like with KDE for example.
I use three monitors and when i lock the screen all monitors turn black. However only one monitor displays the login window after I move my mouse, so it's sometimes a gamble whether I can see the login window or not.
Thanks
Last edited by Andiru (2021-12-14 20:12:29)
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The logon screen will follow the mouse, you should be able to drag it onto every screen.
Yes, blindly.
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Hmm, moving the mouse does nothing, it just disappears when i go to another screen (with and without clicking).
What seems to kinda work is pressing ESC and moving the mouse however sometimes I don't reach the other screen. Holding it down works the best however that results in canceling the login screen over and over which is not the nicest to look at, but I guess it kind of works.
I still wonder if there is another way, maybe going so far as to installing a different screensaver or locker?
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you should be able to drag
I should not have said drag. I use no buttons, just a flick of a trackball ball.
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maybe going so far as to installing a different screensaver or locker?
as I evolve, I've been removing such things. Most the newer stuff uses nothing, no lightdm, no locker, no sceensaver...
Last edited by CwF (2021-12-11 01:44:54)
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I use three monitors and when i lock the screen all monitors turn black. However only one monitor displays the login window after I move my mouse, so it's sometimes a gamble whether I can see the login window or not.
Which screen locker/saver program are using? Which distro? Which version of Xfce?
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I should not have said drag. I use no buttons, just a flick of a trackball ball.
I don't really understand what that means (English is not my native language). I feel like i tried everything tho.
But let's make sure we are talking about the same thing. I do not mean the logon screen you get after you logout with let's say
xfce4-session-logout
but the login screen that you get after you press [Ctrl] + [Alt] + [L] or type
xfce4-screensaver-command --lock
can you also just move(?) your mouse when you in that locked state?
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Which screen locker/saver program are using? Which distro? Which version of Xfce?
I'm using EndeavourOS with Xfce version 4.16, I have just installed it a few days ago and I haven't done any changes at the screen locker/saver, so I assume it's the default(?), so Xfce Screensaver.
How could I check what screensaver I have?
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How could I check what screensaver I have?
ps -ef | grep -E 'saver|locker'
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ps -ef | grep -E 'saver|locker'
This returns:
andiru 4040 1928 0 11:00 ? 00:00:01 /usr/bin/xfce4-screensaver
andiru 9602 9428 0 13:08 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -E saver|locker
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Okay, so you are using xfce4-screensaver. I just tested with multiple monitors and xfce4-screensaver doesn't seem to support displays on multiple monitors when locked. There is nothing in the current list of open bug reports so you may consider creating one.
Light-locker, on the other hand, does support multiple screens when locked in the same manner that KDE does. As an option, you could uninstall xfce4-screensaver and install/use light-locker instead.
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I just tried running
sudo pacman -Rs xfce4-screensaver
sudo pacman -S light-locker
but I am not sure if that is right or you need to do additional configuration.
It did remove xfce4-screensaver and I was able to lock the screen however one thing I noticed was YouTube suddenly being extremely laggy. I was trying this in a VM, so I thought that might be the problem, but after reinstalling xfce4-screensaver it went back to normal.
How would I properly remove xfce4-screensaver and install light-locker? Can I also tell it to lock the screen with the screensaver?
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I just tried running
sudo pacman -Rs xfce4-screensaver sudo pacman -S light-locker
but I am not sure if that is right or you need to do additional configuration.
Probably log out and log back in again so the xfce4-screensaver process ends and the light-locker process starts. You can also do this manually by killing xfce4-screensaver and starting light-locker.
It did remove xfce4-screensaver and I was able to lock the screen however one thing I noticed was YouTube suddenly being extremely laggy. I was trying this in a VM, so I thought that might be the problem, but after reinstalling xfce4-screensaver it went back to normal.
Interesting. Maybe both were somehow still running?
How would I properly remove xfce4-screensaver and install light-locker? Can I also tell it to lock the screen with the screensaver?
The commands you ran were fine. Maybe restart your system and check that only "light-locker" is running:
ps -ef | grep -E 'saver|locker'
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So I ran the commands again and rebooted and it shows that only light-locker is running.
andiru 828 633 0 18:55 ? 00:00:00 light-locker
andiru 1052 1035 0 18:56 pts/0 00:00:00 grep -E saver|locker
And whatever was happening with YouTube is also not happening.
But I am only able to lock the screen with
ligh-locker-command -l
Do I have to add light-locker to xflock4? And how would I do that?
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Run the following command to register it with xfce4-session:
xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /general/LockCommand -s "light-locker-command -l" --create -t string
This will work assuming your /usr/bin/xflock4 file sources this LockCommand setting. See https://git.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-session … ts/xflock4.
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Thanks, that worked!
Can I also tell light locker to automatically lock the screen after e.g. 10 minutes?
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I believe there is a light-locker-settings package that provides that functionality. Which distro are you using?
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I'm on EndeavourOS. There is an aur package for light-locker-settings and it works. Thank you again!
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