Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:53:19 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk Message-ID: <200907151453.19883.j.mckeown@ru.ac.za> In-Reply-To: <4A5DB32E.7010406@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <4A5CA4F1.6090605@isafeelin.org> <20090714204318.GC1832@kokopelli.hydra> <4A5DB32E.7010406@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Wednesday 15 July 2009 12:45:02 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty > little feature. I'm surprised it's not been copied into other screensaver > applications since, as it's pretty simple. They just had a facility where > moving the mouse cursor to one corner of the screen and leaving it still > for a few seconds would cause the screen saver / screen lock to come on > straight away. > > Conversely you could designate another corner of the screen as "don't turn > on screensaver even after an extended period of idleness". Being a NeXT > app this was all configurable by dragging little '+' or '-' icons around a > scaled down image of the screen, or off it entirely if you didn't want that > facility. KDE 3.5 provides this feature - it's under Advanced Options on the screensaver configuration.
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