On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 13:29 +0200, Otto Peura wrote: > I have 2 screen system with nvidia-glx-drivers and tv-out. If my > computer is idle, it of course goes to screensaver mode and it locks > with a password (like it should do) > But unlocking my computer doesnt work. I can't see the password dialog > at all. It sometimes comes to my TV but sometimes it doesnt show up at > all. Usually I can still unlock by pressing tab "blindly" and then > typing the password, blindly as well. Sometimes even that doesnt work > and I need to restart X to get back to my desktop. I think that this > bug is due to 2 screens, so that the password dialog quite randomly > goes to one screen or another. Though sometimes it doesnt show up at > all. I think it should always show up in the primary display : 0.0 as > it is quite common to have TV as another screen which is not always > on. Do you use GNOME and gnome-screensaver? I think there are some bugs in the version shipped with Etch when it comes to nvidia twinview. > Another thing which is related to this question. Why can the user > restart X without typing the password in this case? If a malicious > user comes to my desktop when it is "locked", he can't use it without > the password but he can do some real harm by restarting X which makes > all my unused jobs vanish. Shouldnt restarting X be password-secured > if the computer is locked? I suggest you use the DontZap option and disable this in X. See the xorg.conf man page. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22
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