Locked screen
Bob Chiodini
robert.chiodini-1 at ksc.nasa.gov
Wed May 25 16:33:10 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 16:27 +0100, William John Murray wrote:
> Hi all,
> Just a thought for improving Fedora. We now have a 'new login'
> menu item in gnome at least, which creates a new session nested inside
> the old. Isn't this MOST useful when someone has left the screen locked?
> I come along, find one of my kids has locked the screen, and I can
> either 'ctrl-atl-tab' or go and look for him. Bein able to just nest
> a new session would be great.
> Where does this have to happen? xscreensaver?
> Bill
>
You are root on the computer, right. Unlock the screen with root's
password.
You could also run two X sessions at bootup and Alt-Ctl-F8 into the
second one. I think hitting return after Atl-Ctl-Fx might be required
to fool the xscreensaver's password dialog.
Bob...
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