On 3/13/2015 5:56 PM, Brendan Perrine wrote:
On Fri, 13 Mar 2015 16:43:54 -0400
John Hupp <[email protected]> wrote:
I find that screen locking doesn't work with Lubuntu + LTSP, because
The thing is with i3lock you are not taken back to display manager so in
phyiscal systems with mutliple users another family member couldn't log
themselves in graphically.
It has some silly options like being able to set a solid color or even an image
as the lock screen. I am not sure how it works over lstp.
Thanks, Brendan. To the extent that I dug a little further among the
screen savers/lockers that lxlock supports (xscreensaver,
gnome-screensaver, slock, xlock, i3lock and xdg-screensaver), I found
that slock is too simple and a tad alarming (just a black screen with no
indication about what is going on, and if you type anything the screen
turns blue -- again with no explanation). Xlock is no longer in the
repos (considered insecure). And I'm */imagining/* that xscreensaver,
gnome-screensaver and xdg-screensaver bring a lot of dependency baggage
and perhaps some unwanted effects. (With xscreensaver, for instance, we
used to have to log in at 2 screens after a resume.)
So I stopped at i3lock as a decent compromise. It's a very light
package, and I can create a static screen explaining that the screen is
locked and the user should enter the password.
I would prefer an actual login screen such as we get with light-locker,
but I didn't take the time to see if xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver or
xdg-screensaver could be installed without big dependencies and
configured to provide just a clean screen-lock function.
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