light-locker shortcut won't work

[Bib]

As advised in README I set a customized shortcut "light-locker-command -l" that overrides the default one (Super+L).
Super+L still triggers the other old locking system that shows the wallpaper instead of light-dm picture.

[Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi)]

The old locking system? So you still have xscreensaver installed? We discourage people from having both lockers installed, as it could come to conflicts (and I suppose what you're describing here is one of them).

If "light-locker-command -l" works from the commandline, then this is certainly not a bug in light-locker, but either 1) a bug in xfce4-settings or 2) something in the way you set the shortcut.

[Bib (bybeu)]

Hi Simon
In the past I didn't really care/notice that the lock screen used the desktop wallpaper. I just checked on a 12.04 and it does.
On both my 12.04 and 14.04 none of xscreensaver and xfce4-setttings are installed. Maybe what I called "the old locking system" is a misunderstand from me and is still the current mechanism. I thought the "light" in light-locker referred to light-dm so it would bring what I expected: a lock screen with the default light-dm picture (or an other global home made one I picked and set from /usr/share/backgrounds with ubuntu-tweak).

Whatever the shortcut won't trigger a lockscreen with the light-dm background picture, +++ when the command line will+++. I tried with both light-locker-command -l and "light-locker-command -l" with the Super+L shortcut (in system-settings/keyboard/shortcuts/personnal shortcuts). The first time I was warned this shortcut was already assigned to system lock screen and I was asked if I wanted to something like "replace" or "override", and I clicked yes.

As of my upgrade to 14.04 from 13.04 via a brief jump through 13.10, light-locker wasn't installed and I believed it was because of a upgrade issue. So I installed it, but I was a bit puzzled to see in synaptic that the ubuntu logo was missing beside both light-locker and light-locker-settings, so I'm still wandering if light-locker is the default screen locker for Trusty (I'd now say it isn't, I feel like there is something cooking but still can't be sure).

The strange for me now, since your reply, is that both my 12.04 and 14.04 can/could lock screen with neither xscreensaver nor light-locker nor xfce4-settings... maybe a 4th thing that do the job. Please let me know.

bye bye

[Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi)]

I was assuming you were using Xubuntu, which is (apart from Lubuntu) the only distro that ships light-locker by default (since 14.04).

So what desktop are you using? Unity or Xfce?

[Bib (bybeu)]

Unity

[Simon Steinbeiß (ochosi)]

Just as a note: light-locker isn't installed in Unity by default, so did you manually install it?
Unity has a new lockscreen in 14.04, so could be that that one is creating a conflict that breaks the keyboard shortcut.

Re-assigning the bug to Unity then.

[Bib (bybeu)]

Yes I manually installed light-locker for the aim I said above. Now understanding that it isn't the default locker, I'll focuse in Unity locker, trying to find if there is a setting for my goal (having a background picture different from users' personal wallpaper).
Thank you Simon and sorry for the noise.