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vitoreiji

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Registered: 2009-09-04

Posts: 67

[SOLVED] xscreensaver not to echo asterisks while a password is typed?

Hey,
So, does anybody know how to keep xscreensaver from echoing asterisks (or any other character) to represent the characters that are being typed into the dialog box? Like xlockmore does?

thx

Last edited by vitoreiji (2010-05-05 01:10:48)

rransom

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Registered: 2010-04-26

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Re: [SOLVED] xscreensaver not to echo asterisks while a password is typed?

grep -Fne 'passwd.asterisks' /etc/xscreensaver/XScreenSaver.ad

vitoreiji

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Registered: 2009-09-04

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Re: [SOLVED] xscreensaver not to echo asterisks while a password is typed?

Thanks!
I don't have a /etc/xscreensaver directory but googling 'passwd.asterisks' I found that I can put this into my ~/.Xdefaults

xscreensaver*passwd.asterisks: false

rransom

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Registered: 2010-04-26

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Re: [SOLVED] xscreensaver not to echo asterisks while a password is typed?

I'm still using Fedora on my main system at the moment, and I didn't have an Arch system running at the time.  locate or pacman -Ql would have helped you find that file on your system, though.

vitoreiji

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Registered: 2009-09-04

Posts: 67

Re: [SOLVED] xscreensaver not to echo asterisks while a password is typed?

locate or pacman -Ql would have helped you find that file on your system, though.

Oh, I did try that, I have no XScreenSaver.ad in my filesystem. It's probably renamed to something else, located at somewhere else... Xdefaults does the trick though.

EDIT: found it: /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XScreenSaver

Last edited by vitoreiji (2010-05-05 04:32:16)