Re: Lock the sceen in console mode

Harry Putnam <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Joe Marcus Clarke <[email protected]> writes:

> On Thu, 2002-05-09 at 22:55, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> parv <[email protected]> writes:
>> 
>> > in message <[email protected]>,
>> > wrote Harry Putnam thusly...
>> >>
>> >> what do I need to be able to lock the screen on my Toshiba running
>> >> 4.3 (still).  I only use it in console mode.
>> >
>> > see lock(1) manpage... your answer is there.
>> 
>> Well, that was pretty painless... thanks.
>> 
>> Who'd have thought to look there... hehe.
>
> I also have a port called gone (misc/gone).  It offers some nice
> features over lock(1).

Read the description stuff on my old 4.3 ports tree (gone-1.3.1)
Sounds good.  But I guess no one has written a sort of daemon for this
like the screensavers that lock up the terminal after some specified
time.

Lock and gone work the other way round.  Unlocking or (logging out)
after specified time.  Both seem sort of backwards.  At least for what
I wanted it for.

I wanted something that does this by itself after some stipulated
period.

I realize I could script either lock or gone to do that very thing.
Just lazy.

 


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