[SOLVED] XFCE - no internal automatic screen locking?

Hello, Arch lovers & XFCE users!
I can't see an option "Lock screen after..." in XFCE power manager, only turning screen off or hibernating. Is it really impossible to make XFCE automatically lock screen after some amount of time, by XFCE settings only, not i.e. by xscreensaver's ones (I prefer xlock), or I've just watched inattentively through various XFCE settings? I'm really confused not to see that option with others in power manager. My XFCE version is 4.10.
Last edited by dontbugme (2012-09-21 13:51:53)

anonymous_user wrote:
Unless you really prefer an "internal" function for this, you could use xautolock and put something like this in your ~/.xinitrc:
xautolock -time 10 -locker xlock &
XFCE does not contain a timed screenlock. You'll have to use xscreensaver or xautolock. I chose xautolock, i3lock and a custom xflock4:
% cat /usr/local/bin/xflock4
#!/bin/sh
xautolock -locknow

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