[KDE4] what component does the screenlocking?

Kai Uwe Broulik kde at privat.broulik.de
Sat Mar 4 15:34:43 UTC 2017


> I know, but the checkbox next to "ask password after" is gone so you can no longer disable locking while keeping a screensaver feature.

Ah, yes, that is gone. There's no screen "saver" anymore but just a lock screen that happens to have a fancy wallpaper architecture. 

> As if no one would want to prevent screen burning-in

Turn the screen off. Problem solved.

> OK. I don't know exactly what the KDE4 library is used for when you execute the .kss as a standalone application but stripping code should be faster than porting it.

Do we actually still have remnants of that stuff in KF5 kscreenlocker? If so, it should indeed be removed. 



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