Things are generally working fine on my new siduction laptop but there are a couple of things I'd like to tweak/fix.
Right now, if I resume from suspend, my desktop shows for about 1-2 seconds before the screensaver shows and then finally it all goes black with the lockscreen. Seems a bit sloppy. I'd expect it to show just the lockscreen on resume and nothing else.
Anyone know how to get that behavior?
Wait for wayland ...
Ok, turns out the real answer is that xflock4 (which is what xfce uses) is just a script that tries, in order, gnome-screensaver, xcreensaver, xlock.
Since siduction is using lightdm with their xfce iso, it's possible to lock the screen using it instead.
Create a new file in /usr/local/bin called xflock4 and just paste in some super simple code:
#!/bin/sh
dm-tool lock
exit 1
make it executable
$ chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/xflock4
and off you go. Note that dm-tool lock is the lightdm command to lock the screen. This might not be as secure as using xcreensaver but it's fine for my purposes.