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From: nunojsilva@×××××××.pt
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 19:11:43
Message-Id: qgdad1$4b2t$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock by Ian Zimmerman
1 On 2019-07-12, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
2
3 > On 2019-07-11 21:28, Nuno Silva wrote:
4 >
5 >> vlock -n -a
6 >
7 > Does vlock work from an XWindow session? Or would I have to use it on
8 > top of whatever I do to lock the XWindow session - xscreensaver/i3lock
9 > etc?
10
11 It does work from inside X11 here. I can, for example, run it inside a
12 terminal emulator or through the window manager.
13
14 (You will probably need to add your user to the "vlock" group.)
15
16
17 > (I browsed to the vlock README page on github but it doesn't answer this
18 > question.)
19
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21 Nuno Silva