Re: Override kscreenlocker_greet / run program when screen is locked

Thanks for the suggestion. It's definitely an interesting way to do it and avoids the problems with replacing kscreenlocker_greet. OTOH it's a relatively complex hack for such a (seemingly) simple task... In the meantime I found out that there is a dbus signal that is emitted whenever the scree

Re: Override kscreenlocker_greet / run program when screen is locked

I haven't figured out any better methods to do this yet, and would love it if I didn't hack it up like I did with... http://lists.debian.org/debian-kde/2013/07/msg00050.html -- Rubin ru...@starset.net signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Override kscreenlocker_greet / run program when screen is locked

Hi, I would like to run a program whenever KDE activates the screen locker. AFAIK there is no ready-to-use method to just execute a program when the screen is locked. So far, I've found out that KDE calls /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kscreenlocker_greet to lock the screen. According to some thread[1]