> >
> > What we have is different. There is no security, for example. Someone
> > could wander in, switch to their own screen and be working on it when you
> > came back, 

That's what password-protected screensavers are for. Lock your screen
if you leave....

> > The screensaver mod would detect the X instance losing focus and
> > immediately throw the screensaver into a mode where it locked the session
> > until it again achieved focus, then whoever focussed on the session would
> > need to know the user's password to be able to get past the screensaver.
>
>   Uhm...if you use GDM's New Login thing, this is what it does...it
>   blocks the previous X session with xscreensaver, you need a password
>   to get back into the previous session(s).

Yep. But the previous poster is talking about doing this every time you switch
to another tty. Which would be, IMHO, a terrible idea, since every user
with two bits of experience goes to a text console to compile
stuff or to run things, and switch back and forth continuously. 

>
> > Likewise the text console mod would blank the console when it lost focus,
> > and demand a password before unblanking when focus returned.

Umm.. there should be an easy way to disable all of this stuff, right?

Damian

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I don't want Windows to be only for the 31173. Yes, we've come a long way from
all those security holes, virii, and cryptic commands like "Edit textfile.txt"
(what in the hell is that supposed to mean?)

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