screen lock

Marko Vojinovic vvmarko at gmail.com
Tue Nov 23 12:37:05 UTC 2010


On Tuesday 23 November 2010 10:44:33 Mamoru Tasaka wrote:
> Patrick Dupre wrote, at 11/23/2010 06:31 AM +9:00:
> > in fedora 13, the gnome lock screen (System tab) does not work !
> > After an upgrade from 11 to 12 to 13.
> > I noticed that the option "lock screen does not exist if I log in root
> > (X11).
> > Is there a line command to do it ?
> 
> On GNOME desktop environment usually 2 screensaver programs are
> available - gnome-screensaver and xscreensaver - neither of them refuse
> to lock screen when logged in as root. It is not a bug but an intentional
> feature.

If the OP really wants to lock the screen as root (and is fully aware what he 
is doing), it is doable with xlockmore

yum install xlockmore
man xlock
xlock

HTH, :-)
Marko



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