David L wrote: > I just upgraded to 13.10 and a script that used to work for me stopped > working. Specifically, I had a script that I ran from a cron job that > locked the screen. The script looks like this: > > #!/bin/bash > export DISPLAY=:0.0 > export PATH=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt4/bin:$PATH > qdbus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock > > The same thing happened after upgrading from Mint 15 to Mint 16. > > Now I get this error when I use this previously working script from ssh or > a cron job: > > Service 'org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver' does not exist. > > It still works from a local KDE session. > > How do I get the old behavior back? I used it to limit my kids screen > time.
It shouldn't have ever worked if run from outside the kde session. (ie, only processes inside the session have access to the session bus). -- Rex ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.
