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>> > I've been using xautolock for years and years. What's good about it is you |
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>> > can have any 'locker' you want. For now, I'm using feh in slideshow mode. |
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>> > For another, you can specify another program as a 'killer' such as a suspend |
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>> > or hibernate script. However, for a traditional ss, I have been using xlock |
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>> > forever - many more modes than xscreensaver, and just a simple binary to |
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>> > worry about. |
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>> > Terry |
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>> I think I'm going with xautolock and either vlock or xlockmore. It |
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>> looks like there isn't an init.d script for xautolock. What is the |
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>> best way to run it automatically in Gentoo? |
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>> Is there a keyboard shortcut to trigger xautolock? |
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>> - Grant |
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> Grant, I run it among the startup scripts of my window manager. You could |
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> also put it ~/.xinitrc, but I don't think you can start it before your X |
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> server is up and running. If your wm has a keyboard shortcut config, it |
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> would be simple to bind it to a key, as well. HTH. |
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> Terry |
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Thanks, I finally rebooted my laptop and putting xautolock in the |
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XFCE4 session settings works great. |
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- Grant |