[Nix-dev] help with patch for screen locking

david at zarel.net david at zarel.net
Tue Feb 7 00:51:30 CET 2017


Hi!
I am making a patch to fix issue #16485 but I have encountered an issue.

I added an option called screenLock to 
services.xserver.desktopManager.xfce that can take only "xscreensaver" 
"xlockmore" "slock" "gnome-screensaver" as values but:

- gnome-screensaver seems to not exist anymore, at least not on nixos, 
so I removed the choice
- slock needs suid to lock the screen, as explained in the wiki too, so 
I don't know if with this patch I should install slock and also set it 
suid, or if it's better to leave the choice out, or if the user that 
puts screenLock = "slock" should be presented an error in case slock is 
not set suid by the user themselves.


Thanks for your help


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