Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 23:03:50 -0700 From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lock the sceen in console mode Message-ID: <m1661w1qux.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <1021006425.299.0.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> (Joe Marcus Clarke's message of "10 May 2002 00:53:45 -0400") References: <m1u1pg22j8.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> <20020510021614.GA82993@moo.holy.cow> <m1helg1zkk.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> <1021006425.299.0.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
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Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> writes: > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 22:55, Harry Putnam wrote: >> parv <parv@subdimension.com> writes: >> >> > in message <m1u1pg22j8.fsf@reader.newsguy.com>, >> > wrote Harry Putnam thusly... >> >> >> >> what do I need to be able to lock the screen on my Toshiba running >> >> 4.3 (still). I only use it in console mode. >> > >> > see lock(1) manpage... your answer is there. >> >> Well, that was pretty painless... thanks. >> >> Who'd have thought to look there... hehe. > > I also have a port called gone (misc/gone). It offers some nice > features over lock(1). Read the description stuff on my old 4.3 ports tree (gone-1.3.1) Sounds good. But I guess no one has written a sort of daemon for this like the screensavers that lock up the terminal after some specified time. Lock and gone work the other way round. Unlocking or (logging out) after specified time. Both seem sort of backwards. At least for what I wanted it for. I wanted something that does this by itself after some stipulated period. I realize I could script either lock or gone to do that very thing. Just lazy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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