Dale wrote: > 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 > > :-) :-) >
OK. This isn't going well. It still goes into screen saver even tho I have it disabled completely in settings and does it after one minute even with smplayer actively playing a video. That's not going to work for me at all. Big time problem. Basically, all I want is to lock the screen when I tell it to lock. That's it. Another issue, ctrl+alt+L doesn't trigger xscreensaver but still triggers KDE's screen saver. It can likely be fixed but the problem above has to be fixed first. At the moment, I've taken xscreensaver out of the loop. Got some other stuff to deal with at the moment anyway. Got a new fishing rod and reel. :-D Dale :-) :-)
