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Date:      Mon, 21 Sep 1998 17:44:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:      BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
To:        David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Using a screensavver under xdm?
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.3.96.980921174326.22016B-100000@derby.jsp.umontreal.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199809211942.MAA09577@pau-amma.whistle.com>

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On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, David Wolfskill wrote:

> >Date: Sun, 20 Sep 1998 19:53:51 -0400 (EDT)
> >From: BEAUPRE Antoine <beaupran@JSP.UMontreal.CA>
> 
> >I'm currently trying to run xautolock -locker xlock , without success. The
> >screen going blank for a milisecond and then restarting the coutdown...
> 
> Well, here's what I use:
> 
> xautolock -time 10 -corners 00+0 -cornerdelay 5 -cornerredelay 20 -notify 2 -locker "xlock -mode random -allowroot" &
> 
> (this is from my ~/.xinitrc file).

I *knew* that I have not been understood very well. The problem is not to
run xautolock as a user, but making it run when xdm displays a graphical
login: prompt.

anyone have achieved this?
 
> shrimp[18]% ls -lL `which xautolock xlock`
> -rwxr-xr-x  1 root  lsrc    20480 Mar 16  1998 /usr/local/bin/xautolock
> -rwsr-x--x  1 root  wheel  282624 Aug 27  1996 /usr/local/bin/xlock
> 
> (Just in case that's an issue....)
> 
> david
> -- 
> David Wolfskill		UNIX System Administrator
> dhw@whistle.com		voice: (650) 577-7158	pager: (650) 371-4621
> 

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