Hi all,

Sorta new to Linux....been researching my problem for a few days now...

I'm running Debian Squeeze. My desktop is xfce4. My window manager is gdm.

I am trying to figure out a way to disable the screen lock function altogether, as I have no use for such.

Let me tell you how I can get the screen to become locked without commanding it to do so:

Let's say I've got a user session open on the desktop. I go to the task bar and click the "User switching" icon, and then log into my wife's desktop. Now, when I leave her desktop (so that I can return to mine) via a "Log Out" or "switch user" action, I get the xscreensaver splash screen on a black background, asking for my user password. This is not what I want.

I've fooled around with the xflock4 and xdg-screensaver scripts to no avail.

How can I disable the screen lock altogether?

TIA!

Have you looked at this tutorial http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=123116? Seems to be just what you're trying to do.