Lock screen does not work for root in gnome

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Oct 18 00:57:17 UTC 2004


On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 01:32:20AM +0300, Paul Ionescu wrote:
> I discovered that xscreensaver and lock screen does not work in gnome if
> the current user is "root".
> Is this a bug or a "feature" ?

It's the way it's worked forever. I consider the bug to be that you're given
a full GNOME (or KDE) environment when you log in as root.

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