Created attachment 5354 Patch to add support for alock into xflock4 Hello. First of all, sorry because this is probably the wrong category, but I am not sure what the correct category for this one would be. I am using alock as my screen locker. By tail'ing the Xfce log I saw that it runs /usr/bin/xflock4 when I click on the option to lock the screen, either the applet or the main menu option. I found xflock4 is just a shell script and looking into it I saw it tries to guess what the preferred locking tool would be, so I added mine into the script. I post the patch here in case anyone else is interested. It's trivial enough so I won't waste any more bytes :)
See also bug #11324.
This bug is obsolete as any distribution can set their default locker easily by setting the /general/LockCommand property in the xfce4-session channel of xfconf (it's integrated in xflock4). Users who switch to a different lockscreen can consequently also easily fix this. It's arguably not a very discoverable feature, but changing the default lockscreen of a distribution is also not a very every-day "normal" operation imo. The main reason - from my point of view - xflock4 was still extended by distros with patches was because they had a default locker that was not in the list.