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 it's

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

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

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 kb

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

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-15 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:45:02 +0100, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk 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

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 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

Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
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 w/ motion detection) or even mechanical (switch in seat? meh..). And how

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Frederique Rijsdijk frederi...@isafeelin.org: 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

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Frederique Rijsdijkfrederi...@isafeelin.org 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),

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 slock

Re: Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread utisoft
On 14 Jul 2009 21:43, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com 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

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 frederi...@isafeelin.org: 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

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 14:03:04 -0800, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net 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

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 themselves to

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? :-) Does

Re: Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

2009-07-14 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 14 Jul 2009 18:33:50 -0600, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com 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

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. --