On Saturday 03 October 2020 04:17:53 Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Saturday 03 October 2020 00:39:27 Vladimir Dergachev wrote: > >> On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote: > >>> Greetings x-people; > >>> > >>> The LinuxCNC people have just brought it up from Debian wheezy to > >>> buster for a base install. > >>> > >>> But the security paranoia is going to get someone maimed or > >>> killed. > >>> > >>> Someone has decreed that the screen blanker must be subject to a > >>> new login before anything can be done about a runaway machine with > >>> enough horsepower at its disposal to kill. > >> > >> Just to chime in, this is not an X problem per se, but rather the > >> desktop environment. > > > > Agreed. > > > >> X does not have a utility to ask for your password - just a way to > >> blank the screen and turn off the monitor. > >> > >> If you were to prevent X from blanking the screen, then what would > >> likely happen is that it will not go blank, but instead you will > >> see either a screensaver or a password prompt from whatever screen > >> locker your desktop environment is using. > > > > Which for xfce4 is light-locker. But removing it with apt destroys > > the system by removeing 70+ other packages including ours. Thats > > not an acceptable solution. > > This is surprising. It is hard for me to see why your package - or any > package - would depend on a screensaver. I would normally expect only > the meta package that pulls in the full environment to depend on it. > > > FWIW, I have tried mightily, to lengthen the intervals from 10 > > minutes on this stretch install running TDE. But something resets it > > to 10 minutes before the 10 minutes is up. So xset is neutered and > > worthless. Frankly, linux is as bad as winderz in determining what > > you can and cannot do. If there was an alternative that put the > > machines control back in the uses hands, I'd jump on it like stink > > on a skunk. > > Looking on github, I found the following file > > https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker/blob/master/src/light-lock >er-command.c > > which suggests there are several ways to disable it, including one > where you can simulate user activity. > > This was just a quick look, it would probably be best to talk to > light-locker developers. > > best > > Vladimir Dergachev
And where might I find those folks? Thank you Vladimir. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> _______________________________________________ xorg@lists.x.org: X.Org support Archives: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg Info: https://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg Your subscription address: %(user_address)s
