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Does https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man1.html#8 help?

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Title:
  lock screen fails with xscreensaver

Status in Session Menu:
  Confirmed
Status in xscreensaver package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The session menu "Lock Screen" option does not work. I managed to get
  Ctrl-Alt-L to lock the screen with Compiz, but the session menu item
  will not work.

  I tried:
  making symlinks from gnome-screensaver to xscreensaver and from gnome-screensaver-command to xscreensaver-command
  adding a .service file to /usr/share/dbus-1/services/ called org.gnome.ScreenSaver.service with the following content:
  [D-BUS Service]
  Name=org.gnome.ScreenSaver
  Exec=/usr/bin/xscreensaver

  I also tried that with
  Exec=/usr/bin/gnome-screensaver
  after creating the symlink.

  I'm not too familiar with dbus so I'm not sure what else I should do.
  Using gnome-screensaver is an option that follows dumping Gnome and
  choosing another distro in desirability. In other words, no chance. If
  gnome won't work with a real screensaver app that's additional
  activation energy to move me to another distro.

  Architecture: amd64
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Package: xscreensaver 5.08-0ubuntu5
  PackageArchitecture: amd64
  ProcEnviron:
   SHELL=/bin/bash
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
  Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic x86_64
  UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev pulse pulse-access sambashare video

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