Have a look at slock also.

2010/8/2 PCMan <[email protected]>:
> My previous plan for this is to have our own locking program. I read
> the source code of gnome-screensaver and found the part doing the
> locking. If we take it and have our own locking program, then we don't
> need to depend on any screensaver and things will be guaranteed to
> work correctly. However, this cannot be easily done in short period of
> time and it's actually a general practice to use screen saver for this
> purpose. Given there aren't too many existing screensaver
> implementations, it's possible to support them one by one. Since
> xdg-screensaver is not reliable sometimes, maybe the more reasonable
> option is to add a configurable option for locking command. Of course
> if we have a generic lock screen as fallback it will even be better. A
> more flexible way is to have pre-suspend and pre-hibernate scripts. So
> users can add arbitory commands in the scripts in, for example,
> /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/pre-suspend.d/ prior to suspend and hibernate.
> Is this needed or a simple locking command option is enough?
>
> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Marty Jack <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Sounds like something should definitely be done.
>>
>> If you read the xscreensaver site, he claims that xscreensaver is the most 
>> secure, because it uses X directly and doesn't depend on a higher level 
>> toolkit which, though prettier, might have a deep bug that causes the 
>> screensaver to abort and unlock the screen.  But I think it would be 
>> acceptable to have the command be a configuration option as long as you 
>> document the security tradeoffs.
>>
>> I believe SUSE was on the point of raising a CVE for this (and Andrea put in 
>> a change and then later reverted it) which if true would be something that 
>> would be a showstopper.
>>
>> On 08/02/2010 03:32 PM, PCMan wrote:
>>> For locking the screen, is it acceptable to add options to lxsession
>>> to execute some commands prior to suspend/hibernation? So we can
>>> execute the locking command of either xscreensaver or
>>> gnome-screen-saver, or others according to the settings?
>>>
>>> Is this an acceptable option?
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Julien Lavergne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> Le dimanche 01 août 2010 à 19:37 +0400, Mikhail Maksimov a écrit :
>>>>> Thanks, 'xscreensaver-command -lock' works just fine for deliberately
>>>>> locking the screen. Is there an easy way to get the screen locked in
>>>>> suspend-resume sequence?
>>>> There is no integration of the lock screen option of the screensaver. I
>>>> reported the bug to keep it in mind :
>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxsession/+bug/612332
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Julien Lavergne
>>>>
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