Re: Please recommend a user friendly screenlock/screensaver

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-netbsd%yahoo.com@localhost>]

[I'm having problems with my keyboard; disregard my previous message]

On 16 November 2015 at 17:51, Leonardo Taccari <leot%netbsd.org@localhost> wrote:
> Hello Ottavio!
>
> Ottavio Caruso writes:
>> [...]
>> what would be a basic, no frills application that locks the screen
>> with a keyboard combination and requests my password to log back in?
>> Also, that works as a screen lock when resuming from
>> suspend/hibernate?
> No idea regarding suspend/hibernate (I do not use them) but I'm pretty
> happy with x11/slock... and regarding "no frills" probably it will suit
> your needs well.
>
> Regarding the keyboard combination there shouldn't be any problem using
> it with x11/xbindkeys (altough in the last years I'm using the
> falicities provided by the WM for that).
>
> The only issue that I have encountered (but probably you can safely
> ignore it) was the use in combination with x11/unclutter (that broked
> the "lock" IIRC); so slock here is just a shell script that pkill(1)
> unclutter, start slock and then restart unclutter in the background.
>

I've installed slock. It is really crude!

It might do the job. Is there a way to hook it to
/etc/powerd/scripts/sleep_button ?

Where would I put slock in the script?

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Ottavio