Xfce: No lock screen and unclean filesystem due to hibernate

Question

Two issues.
I have Arch running with Xfce on a netbook and I've been having all sorts of trouble with Xfce Power Manager. At first, it seemed like it wouldn't obey my settings because my screen would blank after 10 minutes regardless, but then I found this workaround (reply #2) which seems to have taken care of that. My next problem is that when I resume from Suspend, there is no lock screen asking me for my password. I read around and saw that Xfce uses xscreensaver to lock the screen by default, but I don't have that installed, and I'd rather not if I don't have to. But this thread is four years old, so I was wondering if now there is a simpler solution to make Xfce Power Manager properly lock the screen.
Second, Hibernate doesn't seem to work at all. It shuts down my computer as expected, but when I power it back up I see the POST, GRUB, and Arch starts to boot again. When udev starts to check for uevents, I get a slew of errors; something like
Filesystem is NOT Clean
Trans replayed: mountid42, transid 2214, desc 2505, len 10, commit 2516, next trans offset 2499 //There are about 20-40 of these each with different numbers, except for mountid.
Replaying journal: Done.
Reiserfs journal '/dev/sda7' in blocks [18..8211]: 19 transactions replayed
The /dev/sda7 partition is where I put /var. I have my boot messages kept to tty1 but I can't scroll up far enough to capture all of the text. This doesn't happen when I boot normally. Suspend also works fine, other than not locking my screen and presenting me with a password dialogue upon resume.
Does anyone have any suggestions for either or both issues?
Last edited by n125 (2012-01-07 11:03:22)

Answer 1

65kid wrote:
Regarding the lock screen, if you look at the script /usr/bin/xflock4, you can see that XFCE can use xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver, slock or xlock by default. Just install one of these and it should work fine.
I personally use slimlock and just symlinked /usr/local/bin/xflock4 to slimlock, which then takes precedence.
However, there is a bug in XFCE 4.8 that causes the screen not to be locked when you use the suspend button from the logout menu, which is supposed to be fixed with the 4.10 release. It works fine for me when I close my laptop lid though.
see here:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6019
Thanks, slimlock works really well; it looks quite nice, too. It feels like half the time I have a problem there's already a script for it somewhere and it's just a matter of finding it.
I'm still stumped on the hibernate issue, unfortunately.