On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 04:40:55PM -0700, Eric Robinson wrote: > Hey, here's something that has annoyed me to no end, and I'm sure it is > just because I don't know what I am doing, but...
Don't worry, I always feel like I don't know what I'm doing :) > > I have installed various versions of Red Hat over the years, from 5 > through 9. The GUI has gotten better, but the "Lock Screen" feature has > never worked on any machine, with any version (okay, maybe once, a long > time ago, but never since). I select it and nothing happens. It's > getting kind of funny. I sometimes imagine that in a few years I'll end > up installing Red Hat 15, and the "Lock Screen" feature will still not > work. What must I do to get this working? I don't know what window manager you are using, but the "lock screen" feature usually calls one of two programs: xlock or xscreensaver I usually just run xlock from a shell, and that locks the screen. Double check to see if it is installed: [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rpm -q xlockmore xlockmore-4.17.2-5 xscreensaver, written by the infamous jwz (netscape fame), requires that an xscreensaver daemon is running first, then you can run: xscreensaver -lock Mark -- | Mark C. Ballew \Revolution is | Graduate Student, University of Nevada, Reno \not | RAWUG President: http://rawug.org \an AOL | Homepage: http://sublinear.net \Keyword
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