Software >
http://freshmeat.sourceforge.net/projects/xautolock
Monitors X activity, and runs a program
I use this for slock to lock the screen after inactivity.
- 2016-03-28 - 2.2 on Slackware 14.1
- 2016-03-26 - 2.2 on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
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I may have used this for some time, but I can't remember.
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2016-03-28 - 2.2 ∞
Compiling from source on Slackware 14.1
\wget --continue www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/screensavers/xautolock-2.2.tgz \tar -xvvf xautolock-2.2.tgz \cd xautolock-2.2 \xmkmf \make \make install \make install.man \make clean
Using xautolock ∞
xautolock and xlock ∞
edit ~/.xsession
\xautolock -time 20 -locker "xlock -nolock -mode dclock"
xautolock and slock ∞
(slock)
\xautolock -time 5 -locker \slock &
Lock the screen
\xautolock -locknow
Disable the screen saver
\xautolock -disable
alternatives to xautolock ∞
- xss: X Screensaver Construction Kit
- xssstate - A simple utility to get the X screensaver state.
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/X11/screensavers/!INDEX.html
- cleaned up
- added a little more notes