"Lock" screen in fedora with real-time movement?

[Bevan C. Bennett]

Julian Underwood wrote:
> Is there a way to "lock" the screen in Fedora and still see everything
> which is happening on the screen, as if it were unlocked?  That is, if
> you try and do something (i.e. move mouse, use keyboard) the console
> will say "no, enter password."  Ideas?

Sounds like a transparent xscreensaver module would do the trick. I 
haven't looked at xscreensaver code in a while, but I don't think it 
would be too difficult, and I can definately see applications for 
something like this.