Chad Perrin wrote:
On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 05:32:01PM +0200, Frederique Rijsdijk wrote:Hi,I'm looking for a way to automaticaly lock my X session when I leave my desk. Probably just using 'xlockmore -mode blank' or such. But how to detect?Why does it have to be automatic? Something like xlockmore or slock can be tied to a keyboard shortcut, such as <Ctrl>+<Alt>+<L>. If for some reason you require automatic locking, though, you could perhaps set up some kind of Bluetooth connection detection if you have a Bluetooth enabled cellphone in your pocket (or something else that would work as a Bluetooth token) and if your computer has the right hardware. I imagine writing a daemon in Perl or Ruby that checks for loss of a Bluetooth connection would be easier than getting Bluetooth working in the first place might be, depending on the state of Bluetooth support in FreeBSD. I'm not really well-versed in the ephemera of what is used to determine "inactivity" on a computer, but if it's reasonably easy (or if there's a Perl module for it), that seems like the obvious way to handle it -- though of course that may present problems, such as false positives on detecting "inactivity" when watching a movie on the computer or something like that.
I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty little feature. I'm surprised it's not been copied into other screensaver
applications since, as it's pretty simple. They just had a facility where
moving the mouse cursor to one corner of the screen and leaving it still
for a few seconds would cause the screen saver / screen lock to come on
straight away.
Conversely you could designate another corner of the screen as "don't turn
on screensaver even after an extended period of idleness". Being a NeXT app
this was all configurable by dragging little '+' or '-' icons around a
scaled down image of the screen, or off it entirely if you didn't want that
facility.
Cheers,
Matthew
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