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Possible to configure screen locking without PAM support

Using latest master (e8f5064c)

Took me a long while to figure out that I need to build with PAM support (libpam0g-dev here) in order to have screen locking enabled 🙂 ... first thought it is a configuration issue (besides other things).

I guess it would make sense to show all lock-related settings insensitive if PAM support is disabled, so that it is clear to the user that it won't work.

Since it is a security feature, possibly it would even make sense to show some textbox, informing the user that pam support is missing (Similar to the one in the thunar settings, when gvfs is missing)

Edited by Alexander Schwinn