Awhile ago (3-6 months), I noticed that screen locking in xfce stopped working. I didn’t do anything complicated to set it up. I simply turned off the screensaver, and added the Lock Screen selection to my session menu. It has worked fine for years. When I select it now, nothing happens. Has anyone encountered and solved this problem?
Now that you point it out… 
I have the same thing going on, my system’s screens go to sleep just fine, but I don’t to log in to enter/continue with whatever…
As you mention, nothing was done to create the change, and I haven’t seen any settings that differ yet, either. I keep assuming I will check it on one of my other ‘builds’ (straight Arch, Arco, more EnOS, Garuda and see if I can spot the diff that way…
At least it is hard to imagine a lower impact ‘difficulty’ than this, at least for those of us that live alone!
@zeozod ,
In a fresh test system I have installed
xflock4
both CTRL+ALT+L and Sleep seem to work at my end. Check Autostart
Thanks. Activating the Xfce screensaver in the
Settings->Session and Autostart->Application Autostart
dialog brought back the lock capability. It appears that xflock4 tries several different ways to perform a lock. It was not finding a viable way to perform a lock without the screensaver running. I presume that an update removed another possibility. I still have the screeensaver disabled now, but it is now running in the background to perform locks as needed.
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