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#942 On the use of slock in lxlock
Hi,
I've recently installed lxlock to use with i3wm.
lxlock defaulted to slock as no other screen locker was installed on my system.
The consequence: I was locked out of my system and needed to hard reboot the computer.
After investigation, it is clear that the problem comes from the fact slock does not support non-ASCII chars in password.
After 2nd investigation, this seems to be a known problem, since at least 3 years:
http://lists.suckless.org/dev/1812/33042.html
This message as received absolutely no attention (no response, no warning in the man pages as suggested).
We are in 2021! Most people in the world are not north-americans/english. They do use non-ASCII chars in their passwords!!!
Defaulting to 1/ a defective application 2/ an application without support is not a very wise choice from the lxlock team.
It would be very wise either not to default to such an application, or at least to put a visible warningsomewhere (the man pages) that the user might get locked out of her system by using such a tool...
