On 2017-08-15, Jeremie Courreges-Anglas <j...@wxcvbn.org> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 15 2017, tomr <t...@equalit.ie> wrote: > >> I've figured out an effective workaround I think, which is to SIGUSR1 my >> running xidle(1) process, which works. > > That's probably less hackish and better on multi-user machines.
fwiw, I sometimes had problems with characters from my password going to xterms when I used xidle. I don't know if it was something odd about my setup, but something to watch out for if anyone's changing config as a result of this thread. I like the hackish way :)
