How to lock screen

[Patrick Derwael]

Stuart,

Thank you for pointing me at vlock : it does its locking job properly.

Its nice to lock a terminal window, but not very useful if I can open
another window from Gnome !

Thanks anyhow


On Mon, April 10, 2006 6:04 pm, Stuart Sears said:
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> Patrick Derwael wrote:
>> Nathaniel,
>>
>> Thank you for your unerstanding !!
>>
>> As you mentioned, KDE is note quite Gnome.
>> I can assign a shortcut to "lock screen", but as - I believe - Gnome is
>> calling xscreensaver for that, I'm back to my original problem:
>> xscreensaver does not run as root
>>
>> Anyhow, KDE allows indeed root to lock the session properly, so that I
>> believe I will have to switch over to KDE
>
> Actually, no you don't.
> Although you can if you prefer this.
> If you really want to stop users from switching terminals or doing
> anything at all while your processes are running:
> install vlock (up2date vlock)
> switch to tty1 (ctrl-alt-f1)
> log in as root
> vlock -a
>
> that should work fine.
> I use this all the time.
>
> one proviso though - you may wish to change /etc/inittab and disable
> ctrl-alt-delete as this will work anyway.
>
> HTH
>
> Stuart
>
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