On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 9:57 AM, Neale Pickett <ne...@woozle.org> wrote: > Since the list is talking about slock, now might be an appropriate time > for me to mention again my xss project: > > http://woozle.org/~neale/src/xss/ > > This provides several single-purpose programs which allow you to build a > screen locker (or just saver) with a shell script. I set mine up to > check the entered password against an md5 hash of my password: this > means there's no need for suid root. At work, it runs kinit and unlocks > on success; this has the nice property of getting me a new kerberos > ticket at the same time. > > When I mailed the list about this in April someone responded with a neat > thing called "sinac", which is a little smaller than xss, but polls, and > only replaces one of the 6 programs in my package. Some folks may > prefer it, combined with slock or xlock: > > http://lists.suckless.org/dwm/0804/5534.html
Thanks for the info! I have been using xautolock until now. I'll give xss a try soon. FWIW, I tried sinac before xautolock and I found that it consumed an unusual amount of CPU resources in the range of 30-50%. Perhaps there was an incompatibility with the latest Xorg server, I'm not sure. I didn't stay with it long enough to find out.
