Re: Lock screen gnome

[Timothy Sample]

Hi Peter,

"Peter Baumgarten" <address@hidden> writes:

> I just installed guixsd with gnome, but I can not lock the screen when
> hit the meta key + L
>
> Is there anything extra I need to do add this functionality below is
> the config.scm I am using

AFAIK, the lock screen requires GDM, which currently does not work on
GuixSD [1].  For now, I use xlock to lock my screen.  If I want to lock
and suspend, I use the following rather unglamorous command:

    $ xlock & (sleep 3; loginctl suspend)

If anyone has any better advice, I would love to hear it!

Someday I would like to return to fixing GDM, but I am a bit
traumatized.  It is a very slow and frustrating package to debug.

1. https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-08/msg00268.html
   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2017-10/msg00231.html

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-- Tim