Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 15 July 2009 01:20:19 Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > I guess I'll look into the bluetooth thing. That looks quite doable. If you can spare the time, I'd appreciate write-up of how you got it working on FreeBSD as it's the first bluetooth application that seems worthwhile to me. I als

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-16 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chad Perrin wrote: Does /usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver.app do this? It almost certainly requires the GNUStep framework as a dependency, but you may find a number of old "friends" (applications you liked) are available for that framework, in varying states of faithfulness to what you remember. If y

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-16 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 15 July 2009 04:53:19 Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Wednesday 15 July 2009 12:45:02 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty > > little feature. I'm surprised it's not been copied into other > > screensaver applications since, as

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 11:45:02AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty > little feature. I'm surprised it's not been copied into other screensaver > applications since, as it's pretty simple. They just had a facility where > m

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Wednesday 15 July 2009 12:45:02 Matthew Seaman wrote: > > I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty > little feature. I'm surprised it's not been copied into other screensaver > applications since, as it's pretty simple. They just had a facility where > moving the

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:45:02 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty > little feature. I'm surprised it's not been copied into other screensaver > applications since, as it's pretty simple. They just had a facility where > moving t

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:32:01PM +0200, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a way to automaticaly lock my X session when I leave my desk. Probably just using 'xlockmore -mode blank' or such. But how to detect? Why does it have to be automatic? Something like x

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Hi all, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > I'm looking for a way to automaticaly lock my X session when I leave my > desk. Probably just using 'xlockmore -mode blank' or such. But how to > detect? Thanks all for the replies. To answer some questions: - I prefer automatic. I already have a key on my k

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 17:36:24 Polytropon wrote: > so in my opinion it's > always safe to first umount, then remove. Kids (or aging muscles) force you to revise your view. Not to mention low quality USB camera cables. AFAIK the panic is resolved in 8.x though. Not sure about the 7.x series. -

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:33:50 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:35:24AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > > To make it more complicated, what about wearing some specific USB device > > on your clothes, attached to a chain, and when you leave the computer, > > it will pop out of t

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 12:35:24AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > To make it more complicated, what about wearing some specific USB device > on your clothes, attached to a chain, and when you leave the computer, > it will pop out of the USB socket and therefore cause "xlock" to be > called? :-) Doe

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Daniel Underwood
> To make it more complicated, what about wearing some specific USB device > on your clothes, attached to a chain, and when you leave the computer, > it will pop out of the USB socket and therefore cause "xlock" to be > called? :-) Haha... Polytropon's witty responses are enough reason in themselv

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:03:04 -0800, Mel Flynn wrote: > And use xev to figure out the keycode of an unused key on your keyboard you > can easily access (like multimedia keys). Then you can activate it > when leaving your spot or when that creepy guy from accounting tries to > look over your should

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 07:52:43 Bill Moran wrote: > In response to Frederique Rijsdijk : > > I'm looking for a way to automaticaly lock my X session when I leave my > > desk. Probably just using 'xlockmore -mode blank' or such. But how to > > detect? > > > > It could be infrared based (heat signat

Re: Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread utisoft
On 14 Jul 2009 21:43, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:32:01PM +0200, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a way to automaticaly lock my X session when I leave my > desk. Probably just using 'xlockmore -mode blank' or such. But how to > detect? Wh

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:32:01PM +0200, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a way to automaticaly lock my X session when I leave my > desk. Probably just using 'xlockmore -mode blank' or such. But how to > detect? Why does it have to be automatic? Something like xlockmore or s

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a way to automaticaly lock my X session when I leave my > desk. Probably just using 'xlockmore -mode blank' or such. But how to > detect? > > It could be infrared based (heat signature), video based (webcam

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Frederique Rijsdijk : > > I'm looking for a way to automaticaly lock my X session when I leave my > desk. Probably just using 'xlockmore -mode blank' or such. But how to > detect? > > It could be infrared based (heat signature), video based (webcam w/ > motion detection) or even me