[Pkg-xfce-devel] Bug#642551: xflock4 does not lock the screen using gnome-screensaver

[Lionel Le Folgoc]

Package: xfce4-utils
Version: 4.8.2-3
Severity: normal

Hi,

Thanks for your bug report. Next time, please use reportbug, as
described at <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting>. That way, your mail
won't be lost nor forgotten, and will contain required information
(debian release, package version, etc.).

On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 06:47:47PM +0200, Mario Koppensteiner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the command xflock4 does not lock the screen if gnome-screensaver is used.
> 
> the problem is caused by the command: pgrep gnome-screensaver
> this command returns false even if there is a process with the name pgrep is looking for.
> 
> $ ps aux | grep gnome-screensaver | grep -v grep
> userid   16680  0.0  0.3  28972  6708 ?        Ss   17:54   0:00 gnome-screensaver
> $ pgrep gnome-screensaver ; echo $?
> 1
> $ pgrep gnome-screensav ; echo $?
> 16680
> 0
> 
> A workaround could be to cut the process name so it does not exceed 16 character.
> 
> 
> sincerely yours
> 
> Mario Koppensteiner
> 

I guess 'pgrep -f gnome-screensaver' is better than cutting down the
program name. ;-)

From the pgrep manpage:

| NOTES
| 
| The process name used for matching is limited to the 15 characters
| present in the output of /proc/pid/stat.  Use the -f option to match
| against the complete command line, /proc/pid/cmdline.

Regards,

-- 
Lionel
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