You could also leave DontVTSwitch on all the time and set a keyboard shortcut to run chvt (man 1 chvt) with appropriate permissions and parameters instead. Keyboard shortcuts shouldn't get processed if the screen is locked.
LMP On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 21:01 +0000, artur.tamm...@gmail.com wrote: > I tried to google if it is possible to change xorg serverflags in > runtime, > but was unable to find anything. I think that would be a cleaner > solution > (changing the DontVTSwitch option before locking and then restoring > later). > > Artur > > Ian Zimmerman writes: > > > On 2019-07-11 09:57, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > > > > > > setxkbmap -option srvrkeys:none > > > > i3lock -c 003355 -n > > > > setxkbmap -option '' > > > > > > Thanks for the idea! It won't work as is for me because I > > > already use > > > some non-default xkb options. But it is closer than anything > > > that has > > > come up yet. I'll get there. > > > > Okay, I got it to work in a brute force way: I just added another > > setxkbmap command to set my normal options, the same ones as in my > > xorg.conf. > > > > But something weird happens when I try the fancy way: saving the > > options > > with "setxkbmap -print >FILE" and then restoring them with "xkbcomp > > FILE". It seems that the change I make with "setxkbmap -option > > FOO" is > > never reflected in the output of "setxkbmap -print". > > > > Looks like another place with multiple "levels" of configuration > > stepping over each other. > > > > -- > > Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, > > if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. > > To reply privately _only_ on Usenet and on broken lists > > which rewrite From, fetch the TXT record for no-use.mooo.com. > >
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