Fluxbox and lock the screen?

zORN · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 10:44 am Post subject: Fluxbox and lock the screen?

howdy...

is it possible to lock the screen under fluxbox like you can do under kde... i mean maybe there is a dockapp out...that starts also a screensaver with password-protection...

thx for any hint...

duff · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 466 Location: Clemson, SC

nmr_spectrometer · n00b Joined: 07 Oct 2002 Posts: 55

You can emerge xscreensaver, then add the following to your ~/.fluxbox/menu file:

zORN · Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2002 8:08 pm Post subject:

thx a lot... now i can leave my fluxbox... and no girlfriend tries to hack my box

zephyr1256 · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 4:27 pm Post subject:

One thing I just noticed, by default using xscreensaver isn't a very secure way to keep people out of your account if you don't logout. I just did a test and after the screensaver came up and the lockout activated, all I had to do was press cntrl-alt-backspace to kill the X server, and I'm at the command line logged in. I would imagine that there is a way to alias the command that kills the X server so that it also logs you out, something like:

SPo0n · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 4:29 pm Post subject:

I have xscreensaver in my .xinitrc - incase i forget to activate it.

tactless · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 4:49 pm Post subject:

Hmm... you can run X from within Screen, and lock that too. Your X server can still be shut down though.
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zephyr1256 · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 5:07 pm Post subject:

Ahh, I figured it out, in your .bashrc file:

Elay · n00b Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 25

There is a utility called vlock. vlock -a will lock all the available consoles.

tactless · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 7:48 pm Post subject:

zephyr: That's still hackable... all you have to do is switch to the console and hit Ctrl-Z.
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zephyr1256 · Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 10:31 pm Post subject:

Thanks, I thought it was, but hadn't figured out how. I had tried control-alt-F1 to get to the console but I hadn't figured out how to get the command line without killing the process. Of course, stop it instead of killing it.

So I guess you do need somthing like vlock after all, if you really want be secure while running X and leaving your session running.

Odin · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 92

All you gotta do is prevent ctrl-alt-backspace and ctrl-alt-Fn

Maybe a little extreme, but its doable...

mvr_rennes · Apprentice Joined: 23 Oct 2002 Posts: 155

jekyl · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2003 Posts: 24 Location: Norway

Or u guys can use kdm or gdm to login with :wink: