Questions tagged [xlock]
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What is the command to lock the X screen without blanking the display?
Years ago (decades?), I used a command that turned the mouse into a padlock icon and prevented clicking or typing, but you could still see the programs that were running. You could blindly type your ...
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xss-lock turns the screen black before running the lockscreen script
In my i3 config I have this line to lock the screen using i3lock.
exec --no-startup-id xss-lock --transfer-sleep-lock -- ~/scripts/lockscreen.sh
The script checks if I am watching YouTube or ...
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GUI can't start while redhat6 is lcoked
We are on redhat6. I've got the command line to start a GUI which I want to be run before I come in for the day, so that my working setup is loaded by that time (sadly I've no control over the fact ...
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Can't unlock locked screen, in Ubuntu 12
After locking the screen (with a keystroke bound to xlock -nice 8 -mode blank), I can unlock the screen as expected, but only within a few minutes.
After being locked overnight, when I hit a key (...
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Whats wrong with my xlock?
When I type xlock and press return key, I am getting the following error:
Unknown mode: xlock: bad command line option "swarm"
What should I do? I just need the basic xlock screen locking ...
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Run xlock after coming back from pm-suspend
I'm using Slackware 13 on my notebook, and I'm using pm-suspend to have a faster boot up. I'd like to have it run xlock after bringing it back from suspend, is it possible?