Date: 10 May 2002 02:18:10 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lock the sceen in console mode Message-ID: <1021011491.299.29.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <m1661w1qux.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> References: <m1u1pg22j8.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> <20020510021614.GA82993@moo.holy.cow> <m1helg1zkk.fsf@reader.newsguy.com> <1021006425.299.0.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <m1661w1qux.fsf@reader.newsguy.com>
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On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 02:03, Harry Putnam wrote: > Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> writes: > > > On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 22:55, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> parv <parv@subdimension.com> writes: > >> > >> > in message <m1u1pg22j8.fsf@reader.newsguy.com>, > >> > wrote Harry Putnam thusly... > >> >> > >> >> what do I need to be able to lock the screen on my Toshiba running > >> >> 4.3 (still). I only use it in console mode. > >> > > >> > see lock(1) manpage... your answer is there. > >> > >> Well, that was pretty painless... thanks. > >> > >> Who'd have thought to look there... hehe. > > > > I also have a port called gone (misc/gone). It offers some nice > > features over lock(1). > > Read the description stuff on my old 4.3 ports tree (gone-1.3.1) > Sounds good. But I guess no one has written a sort of daemon for this > like the screensavers that lock up the terminal after some specified > time. > > Lock and gone work the other way round. Unlocking or (logging out) > after specified time. Both seem sort of backwards. At least for what > I wanted it for. > > I wanted something that does this by itself after some stipulated > period. > > I realize I could script either lock or gone to do that very thing. > Just lazy. You may want to have a look at idled (sysutils/idled). It could probably be made to do what you want in combination with lock or gone. I haven't used idled (and it may not work for you OOB), but it might make a good starting point on your quest. Joe > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message > -- PGP Key: http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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