HowScreenLockingWorks

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This page is part of the debugging series — pages with debugging details for a variety of Ubuntu packages.

** This page is a work in progress **

Introduction

Screen locking is a complex combination of many different packages, applications, and tools. Different desktop environments, such as Gnome and KDE, do not use the same applications to lock the screen. This wiki page will attempt to document the screen locking process for each desktop environment.

Gnome (Ubuntu)

Software

gnome-screensaver

GNOME Power Manager

Indicator Applet

xdg-screensaver

"Lock Screen" gnome-panel applet

Screensaver Inhibiting

To be completed.

KDE (Kubuntu)

To be completed.

XFCE (Xubuntu, Mythbuntu)

To be completed.


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