Re: FVWM: lock screen ?

From: Dan Espen <dane_at_mk.telcordia.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:43:59 -0400

Christian MICHON <christian_michon_at_yahoo.fr> writes:
> > Fvwm itself won't do that, you need to start one of the screen
> > lockers, xscreensaver, xlock...
> >
> > You can do that in your .xinitrc.
>
> We use xautolock 2.0 here. Very stable.
> .xinitrc calls it like this:
> xautolock -time 10 -corners 0+-- -cornersize 10 -cornerdelay 1 -cornerredelay
> 10 &
>
> After 10 minutes, it autolocks. If you're lazy, like me, just pull the mouse
> to the top right of the screen, and after 1 or 2 seconds it'll lock too.

For the keyboard oriented:

In my .xinitrc:

nice xscreensaver -timeout 30 -cycle 60 -lock-mode&

In my .fvwm2rc:

Key Scroll_Lock A N Exec xscreensaver-command -activate

Locks after 30 minutes, changes every 60 minutes.
The scroll lock key locks the display.

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Received on Tue Apr 16 2002 - 21:49:51 BST

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