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Re: What are you doing for a screen locker?
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Maxim Cournoyer |
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Re: What are you doing for a screen locker? |
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Sun, 22 Jan 2023 20:17:57 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org> writes:
> On 1/21/23 13:44, Christine Lemmer-Webber wrote:
>> I used to use xscreensaver. I kinda miss it. It's still broken, see
>> bug #57919.
>> But really, the lack of xscreensaver has made me move back to Gnome
>> and
>> recently Gnome started having weird bugs on my hardware, so then I
>> wanted to move back to stumpwm. But I simply don't understand how to
>> get screen locking to work right without xscreensaver, which at least
>> had made it relatively easy.
>> The cookbook contains some info on how to use session locking with
>> xorg
>> but it doesn't seem like complete information. I'd be interested if
>> people would share their configurations. Thanks!
>>
>
> xlockmore and slock are installed in %base-packages and should work
> out of the box on Xorg.
I use xlockmore, but beware that it'll peak one of your core 100% while
used. Perhaps there's something better?
--
Thanks,
Maxim