Disable "Lock Screen" feature

[Duncan]

Dotan Cohen posted on Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:50:49 +0300 as excerpted:

> On 22 April 2010 21:47, Edgar Kalkowski <eMail at edgar-kalkowski.de>
> wrote:
>> Am oder ungefähr am Donnerstag, 22. April 2010, schrieb Dotan Cohen:
>>> What must I break to disable the "Lock Screen" feature? This is
>>> constantly getting a particular user in trouble.
>>
>> One radical thing you could do is to remove or rewrite
>> /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kscreenlocker. This is what I do to make KDE use
>> xscreensaver rather than kscreensaver for locking the screen.
>>
>>
> Terrific, thank you!


Hmm, interesting.

I have the opposite issue, I can't lock-screen.  If I try, I get a dialog 
saying the screen wont' be locked as there's no greeter plugin configured 
to let me back in.  I've guessed it was because I don't have the full KDE 
installed, only the general base and selected apps, but I don't know what 
to install to get the functionality.

But I already have kscreenlocker.  equery (gentoo) says it's part of the 
krunner package.  So that wouldn't appear to be the issue.  I wish this 
"greeter plugin" thing was described less vaguely, so I had some idea what 
I was supposed to install to get it.

That said, as it's normally just me on the machines, it hasn't been a big 
enough issue to bother doing a lot to figure out why.  I just know I don't 
have it.

Which is why this thread is so interesting, both for the hint it provides 
(even if I have kscreenlocker itself), and because if Dotan and I could 
just switch problems, neither one of us would have a problem! =:^)

... Just googled it.  That was fast!  About a 2-minute Google is all, once 
I decided to actually do it!  Way shorter than writing this reply! Seems 
the greeter plugin is a part of the kdm package, at least for most distros 
(I've not checked Gentoo yet, only googled the general problem and fix).  
As I do a text login and startx with kde set as my xsession from there, 
I've not needed and don't have kdm installed.  Now that I know where the 
thing is, I may still choose not to install it, but at least I know where 
it is, if I decide to.

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