Locking the Session / Screen


Grench

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I'm not digging up the old threads on this to avoid getting called out for necroposting.


I need a good way to lock the screen to a login prompt without logging out. Preferably from a button on the menu bar.


So - has anyone conquered this? Is there a command line "lock" for Angstrom? I was able to find them for ubuntu, etc - but no luck on ours.


Any ideas?
 
Looks like we are missing xlock.


According to the xubuntu XFCE forum xflock4 from command line, should call up the lock but we are missing xlock and may need to install xlockmore (if that wont break anything on the OP build of angstrom?) to gain the missing dependency. Then pressing ctrl-alt-del should be pre-set up in the keyboard shortcut manager (which it is) and should let you lock the screen. See here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1021725 (post #6-9) though post 6 doesnt work, as OP doesnt have 'Lock' available in that list, only the 'Action Buttons' command.)


Or Is the info in post #4 onward here http://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?pid=22097#p22097Tabs of any use? I'm not sure what screensaver protocol OP is running.


Forgive the linux newbishness here, as I thought I'd try an learn something here but I'm probably way off :)
 
That looks quite sane, I would only mention that you'll have to redefine Ctrl+Alt+Del to something else, maybe Ctrl+Alt+Backspace, since you have no Del key on Pandora.
 
....DEL is on the backspace key....you just need shift/L-trigger pressed to aply it
 
Crtrl+alt+shift+del is good for Emacs people. ) All the rest might just redefine the key combination (Ctrl+Alt+Backspace doesn't seem to be used anywhere else because it used to restart X11 server, which is now disabled by default in most of distributions) or remap the key if they feel like it. First one is much easier.
 
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