Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 19 March 2022 12:33:16 GMT Anna “CyberTailor” wrote: >> On 2022-03-19 06:08, Dale wrote: >>> Anna “CyberTailor” wrote: >>>> The only secure lockscreen is XScreenSaver. >>>> https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/01/i-told-you-so-2021-edition/ >>> I have that installed here. Question now is, is that what locks my >>> screen or is KDE/sddm/something else doing that besides xscreensaver. >>> From my poking around, I don't think I'm using xscreensaver. I'm trying >>> to figure out how that works so I can get it to be used with KDE and any >>> other GUI I use. Being able to use ctrl+alt=L would be a nice bonus. >> Add a custom keybinding for Ctrl+Alt+L Ctrl+Alt+Lso it executes: >> >> xscreensaver-command --lock > Ctrl+Alt+L locks the screen here, after logging in to Plasma via SDDM. I > didn't set that myself, so it seems to be a default value. >
I think when I logout and back in, it may work better. I put in a config file in KDE autostart and when I want to lock the screen, it triggers xscreensaver instead of the usual KDE lock screen. That's the theory anyway. I just finished my updates so I should be able to test in a bit. The only downside, it activates the screensaver and locks the screen when I'm watching videos right now. That may change when I logout and back in to but right now, I had to stop xscreensaver. I tend to leave the screen saver turned off anyway and just lock the screen when I want it to power off the monitor etc. We'll know in a bit. I'll post updates in case someone else here wants to switch or googles up this thread. Dale :-) :-)
