#43 Sleep method for XFCE does not work as expected

[Chigozirim Chukwu]

The way the sleep action works on XFCE currently is to call xflock4. This will successfully lock the screen, but nothing happens after that. I am just left with xscreensaver doing its fancy graphics on the screen. When I type in my password to unlock the screen, then the system immediately goes to sleep.

Atm I am getting around this issue by using a custom command that does xfce4-session-logout --suspend. The xfce power manager can be configured to lock the screen before suspend, which means it does the call to xflock4 by itself, so the screen gets locked after I run the suspend command.

Please consider switching to using this command over xflock4

[Konrad Twardowski]

The way the sleep action works on XFCE currently is to call xflock4.

xflock4 is called before sleep if "Lock screen before sleep"
option is enabled in KShutdown.

This will successfully lock the screen, but nothing happens after that.

Maybe I should also try to add support for suggested "xfce4-session-logout --suspend"
in case all other (systemd, UPower, etc.) sleep functions fail.

When I type in my password to unlock the screen, then the system immediately goes to sleep.

Hmm... This is weird. I fixed some Xfce bugs years ago,
but I don't remember if this one is related.

If the problem still exist in recent KShutdown 5.2 please send me the log output
(quit KShutdown and run it in a Terminal or search in ~/.xsession-errors file)

Thanks