Bug#790632: gnome-flashback: unable to Lock the screen

[Antonio Ospite]

Package: gnome-flashback
Version: 3.17.2-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

since gnome-flashback 3.17 the menu item to lock the screen does not
work anymore on my system.

It looks like this is because the session manager does not launch
gnome-screensaver at login-time.

In fact if I execute gnome-screensaver in a shell, then the menu item
starts working again.

As a workaround I am using the "Switch User" menu item when I leave the
seat, but it would be good to have this fixed.

Thanks,
   Antonio

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (900, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.utf8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages gnome-flashback depends on:
ii  gnome-flashback-common   3.17.2-2
ii  libc6                    2.19-18
ii  libcairo2                1.14.2-2
ii  libcanberra-gtk3-0       0.30-2.1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0       2.31.4-2
ii  libglib2.0-0             2.44.1-1.1
ii  libgnome-desktop-3-10    3.16.2-2
ii  libgtk-3-0               3.16.4-2
ii  libpulse-mainloop-glib0  6.0-2
ii  libpulse0                6.0-2
ii  libupower-glib3          0.99.3-1+b1
ii  libx11-6                 2:1.6.3-1
ii  libx11-xcb1              2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxcb-randr0            1.10-3+b1
ii  libxext6                 2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxrandr2               2:1.4.2-1+b1

Versions of packages gnome-flashback recommends:
ii  dbus                   1.8.18-1
ii  gnome-settings-daemon  3.16.2-3

gnome-flashback suggests no packages.

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Antonio Ospite
http://ao2.it

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