Public bug reported:
I've installed Lubuntu 14.04 from scratch using the 32 bit ISO downloaded from
the official website. I made a bootable USB drive and installed it from there.
During the install process, I chose Italian as the installer language, Italian
as the operating system language,
The 12/7 update for gnome-screensaver did not, as expected, fix this issue with
xfce.
If xfce is not going to be adapted, and gnome-screensaver is not going to be
reverted, then switching to xscreensaver (or to Ubuntu) seems to be the only
workaround for the time being (but based on what I've
I have unactivated, killed and set up not to load at boot the gnome-
screensaver daemon, and I have installed, configured and set up to load
at boot the xscreensaver module. The good news is that the lock screen
button works as before without the need of any intervention. I've left
the Screensaver
I second that last comment: not being able to configure an automatic screen
lock after a given time of inactivity is obviously a security issue at least in
certain environments.
Personally I am getting this bug in Xubuntu 9.10, upgraded from 9.04. The
screen saver can be started manually
