Re: How to lock screen

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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