mouse@SHAMASH.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse) (06/02/90)
>> I was looking for a screen auto-lock - a screen blanker that >> required the password to unblank. Has anyone heard of such a thing? > I don't know about X windows, but on Sunview, there's a program we > use called lockscreen that does just that: it blanks and locks the > screen and requires the user's password before returning you to the > screen in the exact state it would have been in if you had just left > your terminal and nobody had touched it. That's not what he wanted, quite: he wanted a program like that but which activated itself automatically after some (presumably configurable) amount of idle time. As far as I can tell, lockscreen must be explicitly invoked - it can't be started once and kick in automatically after some idle interval. der Mouse old: mcgill-vision!mouse new: mouse@larry.mcrcim.mcgill.edu