transparent screensaver/keyboard lockout utility? [SOLVED]

volumen1 · Guru Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 393 Location: Missoula, MT

So, we have a network management station that's hooked up to a big flatscreen for system graphs and other prettiness. What I'd like is something like a transparent screensaver. So, after X minutes, X will lock the screen, but continue to display the screen. So, all my pretty graphs are still viewable, but someone can't use the system until they unlock it with a password.

I know that Windows has this concept, but I can't find it for the life of me for Linux, but I just might not be looking in the right place.
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pathfinder · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 6:51 pm Post subject:

i wish there were something similar too...
here s a crap way of doing it:
you condemn your keyboard changing a config entry in xorg.conf
as only root is able to modify it, no one could access the keyboard...
crappy crappy crap, isnt it?

mirko_3 · l33t Joined: 02 Nov 2003 Posts: 605 Location: Birreria

If I remember correctly, xtrlock does that, it only changes your mouse cursor to a lock...
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volumen1 · Guru Joined: 01 Mar 2003 Posts: 393 Location: Missoula, MT

Bingo!

That is exactly what I want. Thanks much!
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kkinkouu · Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2017 7:02 pm Post subject:

now this is COOL!