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Dale wrote: |
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> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> On Saturday, 19 March 2022 12:33:16 GMT Anna “CyberTailor” wrote: |
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>>> On 2022-03-19 06:08, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> Anna “CyberTailor” wrote: |
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>>>>> The only secure lockscreen is XScreenSaver. |
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>>>>> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/ |
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>>>> I have that installed here. Question now is, is that what locks my |
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>>>> screen or is KDE/sddm/something else doing that besides xscreensaver. |
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>>>> From my poking around, I don't think I'm using xscreensaver. I'm trying |
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>>>> to figure out how that works so I can get it to be used with KDE and any |
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>>>> other GUI I use. Being able to use ctrl+alt=L would be a nice bonus. |
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>>> Add a custom keybinding for Ctrl+Alt+L Ctrl+Alt+Lso it executes: |
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>>> xscreensaver-command --lock |
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>> Ctrl+Alt+L locks the screen here, after logging in to Plasma via SDDM. I |
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>> didn't set that myself, so it seems to be a default value. |
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> I think when I logout and back in, it may work better. I put in a |
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> config file in KDE autostart and when I want to lock the screen, it |
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> triggers xscreensaver instead of the usual KDE lock screen. That's the |
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> theory anyway. I just finished my updates so I should be able to test |
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> in a bit. |
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> The only downside, it activates the screensaver and locks the screen |
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> when I'm watching videos right now. That may change when I logout and |
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> back in to but right now, I had to stop xscreensaver. I tend to leave |
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> the screen saver turned off anyway and just lock the screen when I want |
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> it to power off the monitor etc. |
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> We'll know in a bit. I'll post updates in case someone else here wants |
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> to switch or googles up this thread. |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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OK. This isn't going well. It still goes into screen saver even tho I |
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have it disabled completely in settings and does it after one minute |
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even with smplayer actively playing a video. That's not going to work |
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for me at all. Big time problem. Basically, all I want is to lock the |
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screen when I tell it to lock. That's it. |
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Another issue, ctrl+alt+L doesn't trigger xscreensaver but still |
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triggers KDE's screen saver. It can likely be fixed but the problem |
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above has to be fixed first. |
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At the moment, I've taken xscreensaver out of the loop. Got some other |
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stuff to deal with at the moment anyway. Got a new fishing rod and |
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reel. :-D |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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