2010/1/1 Andy Valencia <[email protected]>: > -------- > [Shawn Betts <[email protected]> writes:] > >> > Have you thought about screen's "idle" and "lock" functions? I use >> > Ratpoison as my regular window manager, but I'd really like to have the >> > screen lock after it's been left idle for a while. >> Doesn't xscreensaver, xlock do this automagically? I suppose it >> wouldn't hurt to have such a thing. If anyone has a patch I'll stick >> it in the repo. > > Yes, I'm just setting up xscreensaver tonight. :-> > > But in the vein of "less is more", it'd be cool if the very most > basic level (idle time X, lock w. password) was just a couple K of > code in ratpoison rather than ~2.5M physical, ~5M virtual for > xscreensaver.
Yes xlock is probably bigger than it has to be but it doesn't seem right to put such specialized code into ratpoison. But don't let that stop you from writing a tiny X app that sleeps while no keyboard events come in, blanks the screen, grabs the keyboard, and waits for the password. I imagine it'd be about 100 lines! I wouldn't have a problem with putting that in contrib/. -Shawn _______________________________________________ Ratpoison-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/ratpoison-devel
