1. What about backgrounding startx and then exiting your shell?
2. Have you tried using "lock -np" instead of vlock?
On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Eric Schuele wrote:
Eric Schuele wrote:
Hello,
[hadn't worn my newbie hat lately... so I thought I'd try it on.]
Is there a way to run X via startx and prevent someone from switching back
to the console that started it and pressing Ctrl-C, without using
DontVTSwitch in my xorg.conf file?
I would like to be able to use multiple virtual consoles. But do not like
the idea of someone switching back to *my* virtual console... killing X and
having my account available to them. This way I could lock my session via
xscreensaver, and walk away. Then someone else could login and use the
machine... just not *my* account.
I had envisioned something like a script that did the following:
#!/bin/sh
startx &
vlock
Yet vlock does not like this at all. I was hoping to background startx...
and then lock the virtual console. :)
A little more info....
So it appears that vlock works if I "manually" background startx from the
console, and then run vlock. but inside the script vlock gets into a loop in
which it thinks it is seeing keystrokes... and repeatedly (quickly) says that
the password is bad, please try again. It does this forever.
Additionally, the script works just fine for root. It behaves exactly as I
would like. It startx and then locks the console.
Lastly, I have done a bit more googling, looking for vlock and startx
specifically... and found that (at least in the past) many people have done
it this way with success. I'm not sure what I might be doing wrong here.
I did turn up one bug that sounds very much like what I am experiencing but
it appears to have been fixed some time ago. I wonder if there is a
regression? Anyone using `startx &; vlock` successfully?
Is there anything that might accomplish something similar?
Thanks.
--
Regards,
Eric
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