Re: Lock the sceen in console mode

On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 02:03, Harry Putnam wrote:
> 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.

You may want to have a look at idled (sysutils/idled).  It could
probably be made to do what you want in combination with lock or gone. 
I haven't used idled (and it may not work for you OOB), but it might
make a good starting point on your quest.

Joe

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