Screensaver

[Bill Crawford]

On Tuesday 03 March 2009 17:01:29 Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> I have a application monitoring program running on the display of a
> machine and I'm looking to have the screen lock with a password like the
> screensaver does however I do not want the screen to blank since this
> would obviously prevent me from seeing what's on the screen.  But I do
> want to prevent people from "tinkering" with the machine.
>
> Any suggestions?

Use one of the screensavers that distorts the screen, like the "ripples" hack. 
If you use xscreensaver, it'll let you select a set of hacks to run, and you 
can just pick all the ones that still let you see most of the screen.