Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-30 Thread Kenneth Parker
On Thu, Sep 30, 2021, 8:03 AM wrote: > On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11:34:42 PM David Wright wrote: > > On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:48:11 (+1300), Richard Hector wrote: > > > As I say, I consider this to be a security flaw - people can hear > > > something of what my computer's doing when I'm

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-30 Thread rhkramer
On Wednesday, September 29, 2021 11:34:42 PM David Wright wrote: > On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:48:11 (+1300), Richard Hector wrote: > > As I say, I consider this to be a security flaw - people can hear > > something of what my computer's doing when I'm not there and it's > > supposedly locked. > > >

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-29 Thread David Wright
On Wed 29 Sep 2021 at 16:48:11 (+1300), Richard Hector wrote: > As I say, I consider this to be a security flaw - people can hear > something of what my computer's doing when I'm not there and it's > supposedly locked. > > Do others agree with that? No (ie I concur with Dan). > Also, I don't

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-29 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Hector wrote: > However, I'm reluctant to embark on one-off efforts, partly because I don't > understand enough of the underlying structure, and partly because it only > solves it for me (if I understood more, maybe I could contribute back, but I > don't). > > As I say, I consider this

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-28 Thread Richard Hector
On 28/09/21 11:33 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Hector wrote: On 27/09/21 11:39 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: > > One option is to run a mute and stop-playing command immediately > on screensaver interaction. > > For XFCE4, that's as easy as adding a panel object which runs an > application,

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-28 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Hector wrote: > On 27/09/21 11:39 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: > > > > One option is to run a mute and stop-playing command immediately > > on screensaver interaction. > > > > For XFCE4, that's as easy as adding a panel object which runs an > > application, pointing that at a script, and

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-28 Thread Richard Hector
On 27/09/21 11:39 pm, Dan Ritter wrote: Richard Hector wrote: I'm using buster with xfce4, pulseaudio, and (I think) light-locker. When I lock my screen, audio continues to play (and system sounds are still heard). This seems to me like a way to leak information, and is also annoying to

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-27 Thread Dan Ritter
Richard Hector wrote: > I'm using buster with xfce4, pulseaudio, and (I think) light-locker. > > When I lock my screen, audio continues to play (and system sounds are still > heard). > > This seems to me like a way to leak information, and is also annoying to > anyone nearby. It's then annoying

Re: silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-27 Thread Alexander V. Makartsev
On 27.09.2021 07:20, Richard Hector wrote: Hi all, I'm using buster with xfce4, pulseaudio, and (I think) light-locker. When I lock my screen, audio continues to play (and system sounds are still heard). This seems to me like a way to leak information, and is also annoying to anyone

silence audio on locked screen?

2021-09-26 Thread Richard Hector
Hi all, I'm using buster with xfce4, pulseaudio, and (I think) light-locker. When I lock my screen, audio continues to play (and system sounds are still heard). This seems to me like a way to leak information, and is also annoying to anyone nearby. It's then annoying for me when I discover

locked screen

2007-12-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
My login started with the locked screen again recently, and I'm not sure why. The other login doesn't do that, you can do the CTRL-ALT-F8 to the other login, and get right to the desktop. When you go from that one to mine ( CTRL-ALT-F7) OR you go away from the monitor for a while, it gets you

Re: locked screen

2007-12-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 03:58:05PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: My login started with the locked screen again recently, and I'm not sure why. The other login doesn't do that, you can do the CTRL-ALT-F8 to the other login, and get right to the desktop. When you go from that one to mine

Re: locked screen

2007-12-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed December 26 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: I've never seen this screen on the other login, and they are setup identically ( by me). My screensaver is turned OFF, and it doesn't have a password for the screensaver. any clues? What is the output of `aptitude search ~Gx11::screensaver~i

Re: locked screen

2007-12-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 05:34:08PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed December 26 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: I've never seen this screen on the other login, and they are setup identically ( by me). My screensaver is turned OFF, and it doesn't have a password for the screensaver.

Re: locked screen

2007-12-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Dec 26, 2007 at 05:34:08PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Wed December 26 2007, Michael Pobega wrote: I've never seen this screen on the other login, and they are setup identically ( by me). My screensaver is turned OFF, and it doesn't have a password for the screensaver.

Re: locked screen

2007-12-26 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed December 26 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: What is the output of `aptitude search ~Gx11::screensaver~i gnome-screensaver` ? You may have another screensaver program beyond your regular one (I'm assuming GNOME) active. $ `aptitude search ~Gx11::screensaver~i

Challenge: Locked screen

1997-04-04 Thread Paul Wade
I have a machine that did not exit X properly. I can telnet to it and have used kill on everything I could - even respawned all six gettys. The screen is X with a partially cleared netscrape(sic) window. The mouse is dead, ctl-alt-bs and all other keys do nothing. The last time this happened, I