Light DM Lock Screen Extension not working

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Hello,

I was able to apply the testing.sh patch to Cnchi and install Antergos to a spare partition. Having first endeavored into Archlinux over a year ago on the back of Antergos (back then as Cinnarch), I decided to give the new setup a try. However, I have run into a few challenges along the way, mostly addressed by this forum. Thanks for staying on top of this effort!

However, there is a problem I couldn’t find resolved elsewhere. The Light DM Lock Screen Extension was not installed by default for GNOME. I installed it using pacman from the Antergos repos. The results were disappointing as the extension doesn’t shown anywhere in the TWEAK tool or otherwise impact Gnome-Shell… A quick research, and I think I found why:

  
[[email protected] [email protected]]$ ls -la  
total 16  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 17 00:10 .  
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Apr 17 00:09 ..  
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 97 Apr 3 20:20 extension.js -\> /home/faidoc/Antergos/git/antergos-packages/gnome-shell-extension-lockscreen-lightdm/extension.js  
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 98 Apr 3 20:20 metadata.json -\> /home/faidoc/Antergos/git/antergos-packages/gnome-shell-extension-lockscreen-lightdm/metadata.json  

However, this linked-to location doesn’t exist:

  
[[email protected] [email protected]]$ cd /home/faidoc/  
bash: cd: /home/faidoc/: No such file or directory  

I believe the error comes from the PKGBUILD, which uses “cp -dpr…”. The -d indicates no de-referencing is to be done. Can you please update or otherwise point me in the correct direction. Thanks.

Ken

Hello,

I was able to apply the testing.sh patch to Cnchi and install Antergos to a spare partition. Having first endeavored into Archlinux over a year ago on the back of Antergos (back then as Cinnarch), I decided to give the new setup a try. However, I have run into a few challenges along the way, mostly addressed by this forum. Thanks for staying on top of this effort!

However, there is a problem I couldn’t find resolved elsewhere. The Light DM Lock Screen Extension was not installed by default for GNOME. I installed it using pacman from the Antergos repos. The results were disappointing as the extension doesn’t shown anywhere in the TWEAK tool or otherwise impact Gnome-Shell… A quick research, and I think I found why:

  
[[email protected] [email protected]]$ ls -la  
total 16  
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 17 00:10 .  
drwxr-xr-x 16 root root 4096 Apr 17 00:09 ..  
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 97 Apr 3 20:20 extension.js -\> /home/faidoc/Antergos/git/antergos-packages/gnome-shell-extension-lockscreen-lightdm/extension.js  
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 98 Apr 3 20:20 metadata.json -\> /home/faidoc/Antergos/git/antergos-packages/gnome-shell-extension-lockscreen-lightdm/metadata.json  

However, this linked-to location doesn’t exist:

  
[[email protected] [email protected]]$ cd /home/faidoc/  
bash: cd: /home/faidoc/: No such file or directory  

I believe the error comes from the PKGBUILD, which uses “cp -dpr…”. The -d indicates no de-referencing is to be done. Can you please update or otherwise point me in the correct direction. Thanks.

Ken

Hi,

Sorry about that! I will make sure it gets corrected. I have attached a rebuilt pkg and sig file that you can install with pacman -U.

Cheers!

you can also use light-locker

Is this safe? I see that just using the extension, I can switch back to the VT by using (CTRL + ALT + 1) and no password is required. It seems that if I install light-locker, also, then this works well. I propose to install both by default.

That should not be happening. I will look into it asap. Thanks for reporting it!

Cheers!

Looks like it’s the intended function…

[http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/lightdm/2013-July/000400.html][0]">[http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/l][1] … 00400.html

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[1]: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/l

Interesting…thanks. We will discuss this and make a decision asap. We previously discussed light-locker but in my tests I found it to be buggy and slow.

Has a decision been made on this topic? If so I will download and re-install the ISO in the coming week to test the change as it will not be automatic, I’m sure.

We are going to include xscreensaver configured to operate with the lightdm greeter for session locking/unlocking

Cheers!