From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 22 06:30:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA23666 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 06:30:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hq.globix.net (hq.globix.net [206.139.190.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA23661 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 06:30:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rkatsnel@globix.com) Received: from globix.com (mescalito.globix.net [204.254.224.88]) by hq.globix.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1/Cleen) with ESMTP id JAA21183; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:30:33 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <367FAD9C.1522EC10@globix.com> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 09:33:00 -0500 From: Roman Katsnelson Organization: Globix Corp. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.8-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Wolfskill CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xlock References: <199812212317.PAA18717@pau-amma.whistle.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yup, that's exactly what I need! Do you know if it will work under WindowMaker? Thanks! I'll try it sometime today... Roman David Wolfskill wrote: > > >Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 17:25:34 -0500 > >From: Roman Katsnelson > > >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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message