Does not lock desktop, if run by keyboard shortcut or by a launcher in Xfce, if not run in terminal

[Jarno Suni]

Binary package hint: xtrlock

Can not lock screen by keyboard shortcut in Xfce; needs to be run in terminal. (Running by Alt-F2 works, though.)

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: xtrlock 2.0-13
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xtrlock
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-17-generic i686

[williamts99 (williamts99)]

This bug affects me also. I worked around it by creating a bash script and called that from the keyboard shortcut.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10457105&postcount=4

Lets create a new file in /usr/local/bin called lockwithaview and open it with gedit:
Code:
sudo gedit /usr/local/bin/lockwithaview

It should contain the following(cut and paste):
Code:
#!/bin/bash
sleep 1 && xtrlock

Save the file and close gedit, then make it executable:
Code:
sudo chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/lockwithaview

Create a keyboard shortcut to execute lockwithaview(I used ctrl+alt+k) and you are finished.