Created attachment 8249 Result of clicking on 'Screensaver' entry in 'Settings': new xscreensaver settings window is opened Really sorry for the trouble, but… I’ve compiled & installed xfce4-screensaver 0.1.3 (with dependencies) successfully from git, on Xfce 4.1.2 in Debian testing as indicated here: https://docs.xfce.org/apps/screensaver/installation But something is clearly not right: xfconf has no ‘xfce-screensaver’ category, and while there is a ‘Screensaver’ option in Xfce’s ‘Settings’ GUI, all that does is launch a separate window for xcsreensaver’s settings… When the screensaver runs and I go to unlock, I get xscreensaver’s homely unlock dialog – not xfce4-screensaver’s lightdm-themed unlock dialog. So somehow, I’m missing practically all of the xfce4-screensaver goodness, it’s as if I only installed xscreensaver. :/ (I never had xcscreensaver installed before, only added it as a dependency of xfce4-screensaver). Light-locker is not running (disabled from autostart-ing), and I’ve updated the xflock4 script.
It appears that it's being excluded from your settings manager application list. There's likely something related to that in this file (if you have it) /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-settings-manager.menu Xfconf only shows configuration parameters that have been changed before. Once some setting is adjusted, xfce4-screensaver should have an option. You might have more luck grabbing the package or configuration flags from the Debian package (currently in unstable) https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/xfce4-screensaver
Thank you. :) I no longer have the machine that I built xfce4-screensaver on, but on another machine I have where I use Xfce on Debian testing, I installed xfce4-screensaver from unstable. It works! xfce4-screensaver runs flawlessly (I didn't even install xscreensaver this time), and I get the correctly themed xfce4-screensaver unlock dialog as well. There is an xfconf entry for xfce4-screensaver (after I ran it once, just like you said), but there is no 'Screensaver' entry in Xfce's Settings GUI. I do have '/etc/xdg/menus/xfce-settings-manager.menu'. I seem to recall reading something about needing to create desktop entries manually, but I've had enough tweaking for now. ;) I can easily launch screensaver preferences from the Whisker menu, it doesn't matter if it's not in Settings. And I'm sure this will all be sorted out once xfce4-screensaver is properly packaged in Debian. My sincere thanks to yourself and the entire Xfce team!
Glad to hear it! Closing out this bug report.