xscreensaver

[suvayu ali]

On 13 March 2010 08:31, Frank Murphy <frankly3d at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 12/03/10 23:52, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>> I am going to switch the spin and add to the comps group xscreensaver
>> for Xfce instead of gnome-screensaver.
>>
>> This is due to:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=570380
>>
>> So, questions:
>>
>> 1. Does anyone know how to disable xscreensaver from the command line?
>
> Is this what you mean?
> http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man3.html
>
> (-deactivate)
>

I am not sure this works. It works around the unblanking problem but
not the real issue here, the locking of the screen. IMO the
configuration options for xscreensaver are a better place to achieve
this, try this; (under X Resources in `man xscreensaver')

lock (class Boolean)
 	Enable locking: before the screensaver will turn off, it will
require you to type the password of the logged-in user (really, the
person who ran xscreensaver), or the root password. (Note: this
doesn't work if the screensaver is launched by xdm (1) because it
can't know the user-id of the logged-in user. See the ``Using XDM(1)''
section, below.

 I hope this is what you were looking for. :)

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