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Re: Lighter window managers



on Mon, Oct 21, 2002, Chip Rose (ncrose@pinn.net) wrote:
> As much as I like Blackbox, I still miss KDE because of the ability to
> "lock" the screen by clicking the padlock button at lower right.  I
> never leave my terminal for a moment without locking it - it's easier
> than logging completely out - I use the lockout feature constantly,
> and haven't seen it in lighter window managers.

In many capable window managers, bind a keystroke (or icon) to
'xscreensaver-command -lock'.  In my case, WindowMaker allows binding
hotkeys to menu items.  <shift><alt>/ locks my screen.  Easilly
accessible from the keyboard.

Peace.

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