Unable to lock screen in GNOME

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • We started the graphical desktop, but cannot lock the screen.
  • After running startx the screen lock is unavailable.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Graphical session started with startx

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