On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:45:02 +0100, Matthew Seaman <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
This feature has been implemented in the (original) Norton Commander (Version 4 or 5, I think), but just as a screensaver, no real lock. Remember, it was DOS. -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
