xscreensaver

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:54:35 +0100
suvayu ali <fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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. :)

Yeah, perhaps this is the way to go, will investigate. 

kevin
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