I am following -current and use openbox if it matters for my window manager. xscreensaver is started by openbox, anyway when I try to lock, well this is what I see:
$ xscreensaver-command -lock xscreensaver-command: locking not enabled. >From what I understand form the xscreensaver document that could happen if xscreensaver was not running as me, however a ps aux confirms it is running as me, My only guess is perhaps when I hosed the permissions this is some artifact. Here is the contents of what is in /usr/local/bin. If you also run xscreensaver could you confirm if this looks right. -rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 274128 Sep 13 03:42 xscreensaver* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 26240 Sep 13 03:42 xscreensaver-command* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 228744 Sep 13 03:42 xscreensaver-demo* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 150976 Sep 13 03:42 xscreensaver-getimage* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 39478 Sep 13 03:42 xscreensaver-getimage-file* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 4293 Sep 13 03:42 xscreensaver-getimage-video* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 26392 Sep 13 03:42 xscreensaver-gl-helper* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root bin 26802 Sep 13 03:42 xscreensaver-text* Short of that not sure if anyone else is having a similar problem. I can share my openbox config and of course my dmesg but I am not sure that is relevant. Ken