Plasma 5 - Where have all the screensavers gone

[Robin Laing]

On 2015-04-21 18:47, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Robin Laing wrote:
>> Privacy.
>>
>> I like a screensaver to lock and hide my screen.  Where I work, screen
>> locks are mandated.  If I don't have one, I will be forced to use
>> Windows.  It needs to be automatic and hide the information on the screen.
>
> But the point is that those X screensavers did NOT lock the screen in a
> secure way. Plasma 5 provides a secure screen locker now. It just doesn't do
> those fancy animations (but only a blank screen with an unlocking dialog),
> mainly because nobody developed such animations in a way compatible with the
> new screen locking framework yet. As far as I know, the interfaces (based on
> QML) are already there, it just needs somebody to write the QML code.
>
>          Kevin Kofler

Thank you for the informative post.

Please, how was the present <F22 not locking the screen in a secure way 
if you can share that information.

Will we still be able to start sessions in other terminals 
(CTRL+ALT+F[*]) and startx?  We use this at home instead of the "switch 
user".