Someone from a KDE forum suggested that I file a bug against KIdleTime: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=123214 I suspect that this problem may actually be X2GO-related so I have also file a bug report with the X2GO developers. I hope someone from within the KDE and/or X2GO communities is able to help. The following is the same bug report that was filed with X2GO: Package: x2goagent Version: 2:3.5.0.32-0x2go1+git20150704.734+jessie.main.1 Operating System: Debian Jessie 8.2 Kernel: #1 SMP Debian 3.16.7-ckt11-1+deb8u6 (2015-11-09) Desktop Environment: KDE4 The KDE Screen Locker does not launch automatically when my session is controlled by x2goagent. I am able to lock the screen manually using "Lock" within the KDE Menu and I can also lock the screen manually with the use of either of the following commands: /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kscreenlocker_greet --immediateLock /usr/bin/qbdus org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver /ScreenSaver Lock However, if the screen lock is set to activate automatically, it never does. For example, if the KDE Screen Locker is set to "Start Automatically After 1 minute", the screen lock never activates even after the screen stays completely idle for several minutes. If I login to a KDE session directly on the system console, the screen lock will activate after one minute. If I login to a KDE session using "xrdp", the screen lock will activate after one minute. If I login to a KDE session using X2GO, screen lock never activates. Within the ~/.xsession-x2go-errors file, several of the following messages are logged: Xlib: extension "MIT-SCREEN-SAVER" missing on display ":50". Someone from a KDE Forum suggests that the missing "MIT-SCREEN-SAVER" extension would cause the issue of not having the screen lock automatically. Maybe I am missing a package or system library? Is there a modification that I can apply to the "/etc/x2go/x2goagent.options" file that will correct the missing "MIT-SCREEN-SAVER" extension issue? Is there some other way that I can correct this problem without having to try to build/compile from source? There has been reference to similar problems in the past, but I have not been able to locate a proper fix: http://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-dev/2010-June/000579.html I am able to duplicate this on two separate X2GO Servers (running on Debian Jessie). I know there has to be other Debian/X2GO/KDE4 users - do they not have this problem as well? NOTE: I am able to set automatic screen lock if I switch to xscreensaver, but if this is an bug with X2GO and KDE4, I am hoping that there is a fix. If needed, I can file a bug report with the KDE developers. I am looking here first since this issue has only occurred within my X2GO sessions. Any help would be most appreciated. Thank you. Jim Brown
Sorry for the late response. From KIdletime side this is not a bug. One of the backends for KIdleTime depends on this extension. If it's not available of course it cannot work. There is another backend which makes use of XFixes, that should always work and should be the default one. No idea why it wasn't used by default on your Debian system.