On Sun, Jan 17, 2010 at 10:33:12AM -0800, Thayer Williams wrote: > On Jan 17, 2010 at 07:28 AM, Premysl Hruby <dfe...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On (17/01/10 16:17), Julien Pecqueur wrote: > > > I'm using slock and i am suprised to realize that is not safe at all! > > > > > > I launched slock in my DWM session. I just have to press CTRL+ALT+F1 > > > and press CTRL+z (to send startx in background an get the hand on the > > > shell) and type "killall slock" to unlock the session... > > > > > > > But that is not problem of slock, but the problem how you start X :-) > > Exactly, the above method doesn't work when X is started like so: > > # auto startx if logging in at VC/1 > if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/tty1 ]]; then > startx >& ~/.myXLog > logout > fi >
This also doesn't work in all cases, for instance if somebody engraves the magic word "Elbereth" into your computer with a magic marker, slock will turn around immediately and flee.
