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lockscreen button and xscreensaver together?

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – I just discovered that xscreensaver is not functional with the lockscreen button in F17/GNOME 3.4.1. I wanted to make sure of this so I re-installed gnome-screensaver. The lockscreen button did operate correctly then. But since I want to use xscreensaver the question arises. Can the lockscreen button on the panel be made to operate when xscreensaver is installed? The only work around is to run xscreensaver-command -lock at the command line or setup an alias. ---------- Post added at 02:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:04 AM ---------- The answers are found from a Ubuntu forum, go fig (HowTos)

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Submitted by xfrk on 01/07/2013

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