Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 15:17:09 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, rkatsnel@globix.com Subject: Re: xlock Message-ID: <199812212317.PAA18717@pau-amma.whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <367ECADE.C87CB877@globix.com>
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>Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:25:34 -0500 >From: Roman Katsnelson <rkatsnel@globix.com> >Do you know of an xlock (or variation) exist such that it JUST locks the >station, without a screen saver of anysort? Well, I'm not sure if this addresses your question or not.... I use tvtwm as my window manager (using a "virtual desktop" thaht is a 3x3 array). I'm also in the habit of using xautolock. And I have found that only the portion of the virtual desktop that is in the upper left-hand corner gets a pattern of any sort when xautolock invokes xlock: on the other desktops, the screen is locked, but nothing covers the images (which continue to update as appropriate). (Prompting for a password is, shall we say, "subtle".) Although this behavior might be surprising, I'm hesitant to accuse it of being a bug, and (given my mainframe experience) can well imagine environments in which such a facility might be quite useful indeed. (Consider 3rd-shift operations staff, who might need to monitor the progress of something, but who should not be changing things....) Does this resemble what you're asking about? david -- David Wolfskill UNIX System Administrator dhw@whistle.com voice: (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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