On Monday, Jan 6, 2003, at 20:07 US/Central, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 03:49 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> AFAIK, you have to log out each >>> time which is kind of a PIA. It was so nice to be able to forget >>> about >>> my 'Book, walk away and know that someone couldn't disturb or >>> casually >>> glance at my work. >> >> Set up a screen saver with a hot spot, and in the appropriate tab in >> the >> screen saver panels, select the 'require password' checkbox. Then you >> can activate the screensaver at will, and it requires you to use a >> password to get back. >> > > Yes, thanks for the suggestions, Jim and Bruce, but that's not what I > had in mind. I may be unreasonable in my fear, but I always sleep my > machines when idle very quickly and screen sleep even faster. The idea > of running a screen saver on my 'Books makes me shudder, although the > new ones in Jaguar are really spectacular. > > dave > > That's the idea. Set the screen saver to trip at 1 minute less than the sleep timers. That way the screen saver will kick off before the system sleeps and will then require a password when you awaken the book. The system will still go into idle sleep even with the screen saver running...
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