Re: Bigger annoyance with locking.

[Trent W. Buck]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:48:15AM -0800, Micah Cowan wrote:
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> Trent W. Buck wrote:
> > Are there any lurkers on the list that would care to chime in with
> > useful examples on how they use LOCKPRG?
> > 
> > A while back, what I wanted was the ability to blank the screen after
> > two minutes of inactivity, and then *lock* the screen after a further
> > sixty seconds.  This would allow me to have auto-locking with a short
> > timeout, without the annoyance of having to type my password if I look
> > away -- because if I see the screen blank, I just tap a key to prevent
> > it locking.
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> This is in the bug-tracker at https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23739 (no
> work has been done on it).

Hee hee, probably after the last time I complained to you about it :-)

> > Another problem I currently have with the built-in locker is that it
> > prompts for my login password, even though I have a null login
> > password.  So it doesn't matter what I type for the first password
> > prompt, it always accepts it.
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> The desired behavior, I suppose, would be not to prompt?

Correct.