how to lock my desktop(gnome) ?

2009-03-02 Thread Star Liu
Is there any simple way to lock my desktop? I cannot find the button
to lock my desktop. thanks


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Re: how to lock my desktop(gnome) ?

2009-03-02 Thread Daryl Styrk

Star Liu wrote:

Is there any simple way to lock my desktop? I cannot find the button
to lock my desktop. thanks





Ctrl+Alt+l


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Re: how to lock my desktop(gnome) ?

2009-03-02 Thread Star Liu
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Daryl Styrk darylst...@gmail.com wrote:
 Star Liu wrote:

 Is there any simple way to lock my desktop? I cannot find the button
 to lock my desktop. thanks




 Ctrl+Alt+l

but it does not really lock the desktop, I mean it doesn't require me
to input password to recover, how to lock the desktop with password
protect? thanks


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Re: how to lock my desktop(gnome) ?

2009-03-02 Thread Daryl Styrk

Star Liu wrote:

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Daryl Styrk darylst...@gmail.com wrote:

Star Liu wrote:

Is there any simple way to lock my desktop? I cannot find the button
to lock my desktop. thanks




Ctrl+Alt+l


but it does not really lock the desktop, I mean it doesn't require me
to input password to recover, how to lock the desktop with password
protect? thanks





That's odd.  Works here fine.  Try to enable Lock screen when 
screensaver is enabled in SystemPreferencesScreensaver



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Re: how to lock my desktop(gnome) ?

2009-03-02 Thread Star Liu
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Kousik Maiti kousiks...@gmail.com wrote:
 Are you login in your system as root user? Because from root user you can't
 lock screen. Login as other user and see wheather it work?
yes, i'm root, thank you.


 On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Star Liu minxinjian...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:41 PM, Daryl Styrk darylst...@gmail.com wrote:
  Star Liu wrote:
 
  Is there any simple way to lock my desktop? I cannot find the button
  to lock my desktop. thanks
 
 
 
 
  Ctrl+Alt+l
 
 but it does not really lock the desktop, I mean it doesn't require me
 to input password to recover, how to lock the desktop with password
 protect? thanks


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Re: how to lock my desktop(gnome) ?

2009-03-02 Thread Daryl Styrk

Star Liu wrote:

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Kousik Maiti kousiks...@gmail.com wrote:

Are you login in your system as root user? Because from root user you can't
lock screen. Login as other user and see wheather it work?

yes, i'm root, thank you.




Logging in as root is not a real good idea.


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