Re: vlock from x11?
Russell Coker wrote:
> Why not use xdm? It works for me.
Yeah, nothing seriously wrong with xdm -- I just think it's overkill.
> On my Thinkpad I have xdm (or more specifically kdm) running
> displays on vt5 and vt6 so if I am logged in I can lock the screen,
> change to the other vt, and let someone play with my machine.
Now that's serious overkill -- you always have two Xservers running,
wasting RAM when you're not using the second. I created a little script
that searches through /tmp, finds the first unused DISPLAY, and starts
an Xserver there. So I can quickly and easily run as many Xservers as I
want, for as many users as I want, but don't need to have any extras
running.
Still, your approach is the more, er, conventional one, and is probably
good enough for less hackish people. :-)
> For when the X server dies I have the SAK enabled in the kernel.
Definitely a good plan. :-)
Anyway, this is not very laptop-related any more (was it ever?) so I'm
going to drop the thread now.
cheers
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Chris Waters, Systems Engineer, Critical Path, Inc.
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