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evol

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2007-06-27

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xscreensaver / startx / locking screen

quick blurb; i've been using arch for the last month or so now and i really love the distro.

anyway i'm using fluxbox as my wm and xscreensaver to lock the screen. there's just one problem:

xscreensaver of course asks you for your password, but typing "ctrl + alt + f1" throws you right back to your bash where you've already logged in and typed startx... and bam someone has control of your session.

is there anyway of fixing this short of using GDM/KDM?

(i know this isn't an arch specific problem and of course a locked screen wont keep anybody determined out)

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kel_p

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From: De Kwakel

Registered: 2007-05-10

Posts: 65

Re: xscreensaver / startx / locking screen

http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#no-ctl-alt-bs
This faq gives little hope

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: xscreensaver / startx / locking screen

In your xorg.conf:

Section ServerFlags
Option "DontVTSwitch" "true" # Does not let you switch to the Virtual Terminal
Option "DontZap" "true" # Does not let you kill the X-Server with C-A-Backspace
EndSection

Since I use slim, I have only DontZap on.

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evol

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2007-06-27

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Re: xscreensaver / startx / locking screen

Thanks for both replies, I'll edit xorg.conf now.

mucknert would you recommend slim?

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mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: xscreensaver / startx / locking screen

As a matter of fact I would. It relatively lightweight compared to kdm and gdm and unlike xdm it still looks good. You should give it a spin.

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PenguinFlavored

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From: Chicago, IL, USA

Registered: 2006-06-06

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Re: xscreensaver / startx / locking screen

I threw this little piece of code in my .bashrc as well as using DontZap in Xorg.conf, works like a charm. You can subsitute vlock for logout if you like

startx() {
        nohup startx "$@" > /dev/null 2&>1 &
        disown
        vlock
}

Edit: Forgot to mention, it lets you change VT's for other logins, for multiple accounts, or in case something goes wrong, and you can't kill X.

Last edited by PenguinFlavored (2007-07-09 01:52:46)

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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Re: xscreensaver / startx / locking screen

What about starting X with telinit?
Something like telinit 5 & exit should not have this kind of problems...

patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

Posts: 915

Re: xscreensaver / startx / locking screen

Just lock your session with vlock -n

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