VNC on screen lock?

Pev · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 23 Location: Amherst, MA

I have an interesting idea. I'm a college student. I usually lock my screen when I leave the room (I'm running KDE 3.2.1). I'd like to be able to run vnc so I can access my computer from outside of my room but I don't want to have to go into terminal and start it every time (I use tightvnc). Any ideas on how I could get a panel button (ideally the button that's already there) to start up the vnc server and then lock the screen?
That would be totally sweet

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PS. I know I could just put a button next to the lock button and click both, but I'm curious to see if this could work.

adaptr · Posted: Mon May 10, 2004 9:30 pm Post subject:

Erm.. replace the command under the lock button with a 2-line script ?
Run tightvnc and then exec xlock (so it won't exit after the script does).
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Pev · n00b Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 23 Location: Amherst, MA

Ok. Does anyone know where that script is located? Barring that, what is the command to bring up the end session dialogue so I can just write scripts for both buttons? Also, any ideas on how I can kill the vnc server when I unlock the machine?

adaptr · Posted: Thu May 13, 2004 8:19 am Post subject:

Brrr, you seem to be averse to learning, but okay:

If you make ONE script, looking like this: