I want the null screensaver!

Sinope · 10-11-2004, 02:05 PM

xlock is a fairly simple utility, but "blank screen" is a still little bit too complex a screensaver for me. <grin>

All I want my locker to do is... well, lock. See, I run electricsheep in the root window, so all I want the locker to do is refuse any input until a password is entered. So I want the computer to look 100% normal until the mouse is moved or a key is pressed. Then it would drop to xlock's password prompt.

Any idea of how to do this?

darkleaf · 10-11-2004, 03:25 PM

You need to have xscreensaver running. You can change the settings with the ~/.xscreensaver file and I think running xscreensaver itself gives you a graphical settings if you click the button.