From: Cilyan O. <ga...@gm...> - 2010-08-02 20:15:34
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Have a look at slock also. 2010/8/2 PCMan <pcm...@gm...>: > My previous plan for this is to have our own locking program. I read > the source code of gnome-screensaver and found the part doing the > locking. If we take it and have our own locking program, then we don't > need to depend on any screensaver and things will be guaranteed to > work correctly. However, this cannot be easily done in short period of > time and it's actually a general practice to use screen saver for this > purpose. Given there aren't too many existing screensaver > implementations, it's possible to support them one by one. Since > xdg-screensaver is not reliable sometimes, maybe the more reasonable > option is to add a configurable option for locking command. Of course > if we have a generic lock screen as fallback it will even be better. A > more flexible way is to have pre-suspend and pre-hibernate scripts. So > users can add arbitory commands in the scripts in, for example, > /etc/xdg/lxsession/LXDE/pre-suspend.d/ prior to suspend and hibernate. > Is this needed or a simple locking command option is enough? > > On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:39 AM, Marty Jack <mar...@co...> wrote: >> Sounds like something should definitely be done. >> >> If you read the xscreensaver site, he claims that xscreensaver is the most secure, because it uses X directly and doesn't depend on a higher level toolkit which, though prettier, might have a deep bug that causes the screensaver to abort and unlock the screen. But I think it would be acceptable to have the command be a configuration option as long as you document the security tradeoffs. >> >> I believe SUSE was on the point of raising a CVE for this (and Andrea put in a change and then later reverted it) which if true would be something that would be a showstopper. >> >> On 08/02/2010 03:32 PM, PCMan wrote: >>> For locking the screen, is it acceptable to add options to lxsession >>> to execute some commands prior to suspend/hibernation? So we can >>> execute the locking command of either xscreensaver or >>> gnome-screen-saver, or others according to the settings? >>> >>> Is this an acceptable option? >>> >>> On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 2:46 AM, Julien Lavergne <gi...@ub...> wrote: >>>> Le dimanche 01 août 2010 à 19:37 +0400, Mikhail Maksimov a écrit : >>>>> Thanks, 'xscreensaver-command -lock' works just fine for deliberately >>>>> locking the screen. Is there an easy way to get the screen locked in >>>>> suspend-resume sequence? >>>> There is no integration of the lock screen option of the screensaver. I >>>> reported the bug to keep it in mind : >>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lxsession/+bug/612332 >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Julien Lavergne >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >>>> Post to : lub...@li... >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~lubuntu-desktop >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the >>> Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share >>> of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: >>> http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Lxde-list mailing list >>> Lxd...@li... >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list >>> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the >> Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share >> of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: >> http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm >> _______________________________________________ >> Lxde-list mailing list >> Lxd...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the > Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share > of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm > _______________________________________________ > Lxde-list mailing list > Lxd...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/lxde-list > |