Am Thu, 23 Feb 2012 10:10:45 -0800
schrieb Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com>:

> [snip]
> > I've been using xautolock for years and years. What's good about it is you
> > can have any 'locker' you want. For now, I'm using feh in slideshow mode.
> > For another, you can specify another program as a 'killer' such as a suspend
> > or hibernate script. However, for a traditional ss, I have been using xlock
> > forever - many more modes than xscreensaver, and just a simple binary to
> > worry about.
> >
> > Terry
> 
> I think I'm going with xautolock and either vlock or xlockmore.  It
> looks like there isn't an init.d script for xautolock.  What is the
> best way to run it automatically in Gentoo?

I start xautolock from my .xinitrc.

> Is there a keyboard shortcut to trigger xautolock?

No, you will need to configure your environment. I configured a shortcut for my
window manager that executes "xautolock -locknow", but you could also probably
use something like xbindkeys instead.

HTH
-- 
Marc Joliet
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"People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we
don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup

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