cant lock the sceen on R.H 7.3
 

I use R.H 7.3 with kde 'I want lo lock the screen but whan I fress the lock buttom on the menu 'nothing happens and the screen doesnt locked is self.

what can I do ?

Don´t log you as root!
 

Are you logged as root?

If so, the screen saver will not start. You have to be logged as a normal user for this to work.

The reason for this is that xscreensaver doesn´t allow to be started as root for security reasons.

I read sometime ago about a way to start the xscreensaver daemon as root, and therefore, being able to lock the screen and use the screensaver, but I don´t remember how to do it right now. You should do a search in xscreensaver to find that.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

Yeah that occurs in RH 8.0 as well. But only in GNOME. KDE will allow you to chose "lock" screen and it works.