On Mon, 29 Oct 2001 21:41, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Am Montag, 29. Oktober 2001 07:29 schrieb Russell Coker: > > In KDE 1.x there was a kscreenblank process which I could send a sigusr1 > > to when I wanted the screen blanked. I used to have a script called from > > apmd on suspend to do "killall -USR1 kblankscreen" to lock the display on > > my laptop. > > > > Is there any way of doing this for the latest KDE? > > Sure, you mean DPMS. Kcontrol -> Energy settings > > For manual override of those values, take a look at xset
It doesn't do what I want. xset requires Xauthority which means that I have to know all the details of the user logged in ("killall -USR1 kscreenblank" worked without needing to know such things). "xset s activate" blanks the screen for < 1 second (before the screen returns to normal). I had this working before, but it only did X screen blanking (not KDE screen blanking) and didn't require a password to restore the screen. As my aim is to invoke a password lock this is no use. -- http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/projects.html Projects I am working on http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page