Lock Screen does not work

vikram8jp · 10-24-2008, 01:13 AM

Hello all,

It been few days that I have installed CentOS on my machine, KDE desktop environment. The thing is "Lock Session" option does not work anymore.

I also tried doing it from command prompt, but to no avail.

Code:

[root@vik ~]# kdesktop_lock --forcelock

Can anybody help me out?

oskar · 10-25-2008, 05:56 PM

Are you logged into x as root?
Don't do that.

If you're logged in as user and you're trying to lock the screen as root - that won't work either. Try again as user from the command line. Is there any error message when you just use start-'lock screen'

vikram8jp · 10-26-2008, 07:08 PM

Hello there,

If I try from a user account also, then also its not working.

There is no error when I select the 'Lock session' from start menu. Nothing happens. When I had first installed CentOS, it was working, but over the days, I have been fiddling around with a lot of settings. Thus it seems to have broken.

Quote:

Originally Posted by oskar

Are you logged into x as root?
Don't do that.

If you're logged in as user and you're trying to lock the screen as root - that won't work either. Try again as user from the command line. Is there any error message when you just use start-'lock screen'

john test · 10-27-2008, 11:21 AM

Sometimes, a Power Cycle will work wonders.
Failing that, you could reload Centos and start keeping a log of System level Setting Changes, so you can back out of any fiddling impact.