If you are experiencing a bug in xfce4-screensaver, your way of helping things getting fixed is to report a bug about it in Xfce GitLab. Please note that to do this you will need to have / create an account.

If your bug has not been reported before, please submit a new bug report.

When writing your bug report, try to be as descriptive as possible, but avoid verbosity; Mozilla has a nice guide on how to write a bug report.

For more information, see Bug Reporting and Fixing.

File a new bug or enhancement request

Here's a list (updated daily) of open bug reports with the date that bug was reported in parenthesis.

• Keyboard shortcuts not working on lock screen (2026/04/19 22:47)
• [Feature Request] Setting to allow media keys (2026/04/19 21:32)
• Lock screen UI position is ~32 pixels too high, only after waking from sleep (2026/04/11 22:45)
• Inhibits prevent DPMS (2026/04/03 17:55)
• slideshow zoom effect feature request (2026/01/04 23:28)
• Dependency on unmaintained libxklavier (2025/09/04 16:17)
• build: Improve PAM prefix handling or remove it (2025/07/08 17:00)
• screensaver not starting (2025/04/15 11:56)
• Wrong wallpaper used on lock screen when Xfdesktop is built with alternative default backdrop (2025/04/12 16:57)
• entering a wrong password in xfce4-screensaver-dialog causes a gnome keyring to be created with the wrong password hash if the keyring didn't yet exist (2025/01/24 19:48)
• Last screensaver blocking on its last frame in random mode when xfce4-screensaver should switch to another screensaver (2024/08/07 23:21)
• Replace deprecated dbus-glib with GDBus (2024/05/29 17:48)
• fingerprint authentication doesn't always work when coming out of suspend mode (2024/04/02 16:46)
• allow rescanning fingerprint without having to press escape twice (2024/03/10 20:11)
• allow typing in password immediately instead of waiting for fingerprint scan to timeout. (2024/03/10 20:11)
• Option to ignore input for a set amount of time after activating (2024/01/27 19:50)
• Unable to create new xfce4-screensaver entry with arbitrary Exec path (2024/01/02 21:00)
• screen saver will let keyboard keystroke through to application before screen unlocks while waking up (2023/11/22 09:31)
• xfce4-screensaver doesn't honor "loginctl unlock-session" (2023/11/21 23:24)
• Show unlock dialog on all monitors (2023/10/11 18:59)

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