lightdm and screen timeout to lock

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 21:38 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
> The setting says after timeout of 5 minute - but that never happens.

Hi,

what setting says this? What locker are you using?

Did you try light-locker?

https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker
https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/light-locker

While I'm a lightdm user on Ubuntu as well as Arch Linux, I manually
lock the screen and don't use light-locker myself. I dislike auto-
locking. Manually locking works by running e.g.

  dm-tool lock

the lightdm command line tool, to get the lightdm greeter. I tend to run

  xflock4

by a menu item, this way I get another greeter, than the one used to
start a session. I'm not running Xfce 4. I run a lightweight openbox
sessions, but I don't care about my Linux install's sizes. I care about
RAM and CPU usage footprints, but I don't bother about a few GiB on a
SSD, since the SSDs anyway hold TiBs of data.

Regards,
Ralf