Bug 1033997

Summary: need command line equivalent to gnome-screensaver-command
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Jason Haar <jhaar>
Component: gnome-shellAssignee: Owen Taylor <otaylor>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: fmuellner, jkoten, otaylor, samkraju, walters
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Description Jason Haar 2013-11-25 02:19:02 UTC 
Description of problem:

older releases of Gnome used gnome-screensaver and had gnome-screensaver-command for locking from the command line (or scripts). Now with F20, I cannot see any equivalent command?

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Comment 1 Florian Müllner 2013-11-26 13:55:12 UTC 
gnome-screensaver is no longer a required component, but the gnome-screensaver-command it provides can still be used to request screen locking.
Alternatively you can use something like "loginctl -P lock-sessions" to talk directly to systemd.
Comment 2 Jason Haar 2014-03-28 00:16:31 UTC 
OK thanks. However, you have to re-enter your password to trigger the screen lock. If you use '--no-ask-password' then you get access denied - not really scriptable

You are correct about gnome-screensaver-command - that works perfectly. 

Thanks!
Comment 3 Jason Haar 2014-03-28 00:16:57 UTC 
whoops - closing