qdbus /ScreenSaver Lock fails

[David L]

On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Duncan wrote:

> David L posted on Fri, 03 Jan 2014 17:22:48 -0800 as excerpted:
>
> > I just upgraded to 13.10 and a script that used to work for me stopped
> > working.
>
> 13.10?  You're on a kde list, and kde is only up to 4.12.x.  Where'd the
> 13.10 come from (opensuse or kubuntu, maybe?, they use year-based
> versions, which that appears to be), and shouldn't you be posting to that
> list if you're using that version number?
>
Sorry, I copied the text from an unanswered Kubuntu post and forgot to add
what distro I meant.

>
> Seriously, a dbus call to org.FreeDesktop.ScreenSaver might happen to
> work on a kde desktop (or not, thus this thread), but it's not
> org.kde... , which should be a hint that perhaps either your distro lists/
> forums or the freedesktop.org lists/forums might be more appropriate.
> (I'd try the distro first.)
>
> Did that, no luck.  And I thought qdbus was related to KDE, so I tried
here.  I guess a more appropriate question for here is how do I lock my KDE
desktop from a script run from cron?

Thanks,

          David
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