When ever I click on the 'lock' button, to lock the screen, nothing happens... Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Place hand on mouse 2. Place mouse cursor over the 'Lock' button 3. Click w/left button Actual Results: nothing, nothing at all... Expected Results: It would bring up xscreensaver and lock the screen
Try running xflock4 from a terminal and see what happens. I'm not sure but you probably need to have the xscreensaver daemon running.
That did the trick. I ran xflock4 and realized I was missing libttf.so.2... Even though info on the net states that its supplied by Freetype2 thats actually not the case. I found out through trial and error that it was actually Freetype1 that contained the required lib. After working that out, I ran xflock4 again and it ran with one small problem. The screensaver would come up but it didn't have dialogue box and wouldn't accept a password. Reading some of the error msgs, in the xterm window, I realized I needed to recompile xfce-utils-4.2.0 [to play it safe] and setuid 4755 xscreensaver... NOW it works like a charm, without a hitch.. Thank you...