Are you login as root user?? From root you can't use lock screen facility. On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Bret Busby <b...@busby.net> wrote:
> Hello. > > I am running Debian 4.0 on this computer. > > The facility Desktop -> Lock Screen, is not working. > > The facility Applications -> Debian -> Screen -> Lock -> KTux, raises a > screensaver, but that screen can simply be closed, by clicking on the cross > in the top right corner of the window, and does not require a login, to > unlock the screen. > > The facility Desktop -> Logout -> Switch User, goes to a login screen, but > then, when the screen is turned off, and, turned back on, some hours later, > the display is returned to how it was before using that facility, without > the login scren appearing, and, without logging in. > > As, in these circumstances, the computer can apparently, only be secured, > by shutting it down, a security issue appears apparent. > > As the above facilities for locking the screen, do not work properly, is > there any other reliable way to lock the screen, without losing the log in > session? > > Thank you in anticipation. > > -- > Bret Busby > Armadale > West Australia > .............. > > "So once you do know what the question actually is, > you'll know what the answer means." > - Deep Thought, > Chapter 28 of Book 1 of > "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: > A Trilogy In Four Parts", > written by Douglas Adams, > published by Pan Books, 1992 > > .................................................... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Wishing you the very best of everything, always!!! Kousik Maiti(কৌশিক মাইতি) Registered Linux User #474025
