>>> 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'm stepping in just to mention that I've observed the same behaviour, > though I thought it was because of the locking program that I used > (slock), not xidle.
I was seeing it with xidle+xlock.
