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4 total messages Started by Tony Baldwin Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:56

#307760

Author: Tony Baldwin
Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:56

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I have xautolock and slock installed, and have tried to use this:
xautolock -time 5 -locker slock
for those times I walk away and forget to engage slock.
But it doesn't work.
Any idea why?

I swear, it's on:
tony@deathstar:~$ ps aux | grep xautolock
tony     18390  0.0  0.0   2944  1044 pts/0    T    14:54   0:00
xautolock -time 5 -locker slock

But I can walk away for 20 minutes (much more than the 5 min requested)
and find my screen not locked.

thanks for any assistance.

/tony

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Re: xautolock does nothing...

#307821

Author: "s. keeling"
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:36

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Tony Baldwin <photodharma@gmail.com>:
>  I have xautolock and slock installed, and have tried to use this:
>  xautolock -time 5 -locker slock
>  for those times I walk away and forget to engage slock.
>  But it doesn't work.
>  Any idea why?

No, but I can offer a solution.  Try xscreensaver (and related). If
you run Gkrellm, you can use Gkrellshoot to lock it at the click of a
button, or it can be set up to autolock after inactivity.


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Re: xautolock does nothing...

#307829

Author: "Xavier Maillard
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 22:04

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On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:36 +0000, "s. keeling" <keeling@nucleus.com>
wrote:
> Tony Baldwin <photodharma@gmail.com>:
> >  I have xautolock and slock installed, and have tried to use this:
> >  xautolock -time 5 -locker slock
> >  for those times I walk away and forget to engage slock.
> >  But it doesn't work.
> >  Any idea why?
>
> No, but I can offer a solution.  Try xscreensaver (and related). If
> you run Gkrellm, you can use Gkrellshoot to lock it at the click of a
> button, or it can be set up to autolock after inactivity.

OP should also fill a bug report in order to get this fixed.

Xavier
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Re: xautolock does nothing...

#307833

Author: Xavier Maillard
Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2009 23:26

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At Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:56:07 -0400,
Tony Baldwin wrote:
>
> I have xautolock and slock installed, and have tried to use this:
> xautolock -time 5 -locker slock
> for those times I walk away and forget to engage slock.
> But it doesn't work.
> Any idea why?

Stupid question but are you sure slock is installed on your
system ? I tried apt-get install slock and it returned an error
(unknown package).

I am testing it with xtrlock (recommended by xautolock) and it
works perfectly well here.

Xavier

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