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- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Path: sparky!uunet!keinstr!chaplin
- From: chaplin@keinstr.uucp (Roger Chaplin)
- Subject: Re: Screen Savers for open-look
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.211034.3844@keinstr.uucp>
- Organization: Keithley Instruments, Cleveland, Ohio
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- References: <1992Dec10.135320.12657@ncsu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 21:10:34 GMT
- Lines: 22
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- LEIGH ANNE RETTINGER (larettin@eos.ncsu.edu) wrote:
- : In article <JSC.92Dec9160430@saxon.Eng.Sun.COM> jsc@saxon.Eng.Sun.COM (John Cooper) writes:
- : >Try $OPENWINHOME/bin/xlock -mode random
- : >--
- : > --- John
-
- : But, is there anyway to do it *without* having to "lock" the screen and
- : enter a password to get back?
-
- : Also, what file would I put this command in to have it run automatically?
-
- You need xautolock, available wherever comp.sources.x is archived
- (uunet.uu.net comes to mind - that's where I obtained it, anyway).
-
- Xautolock will run any screen locker program you want after a specified
- period of inactivity of the mouse and keyboard.
-
- --
- Roger Chaplin / Instruments Division Engineering / "Though I'd been lost now I
- chaplin@keinstr.uucp / CI$: 76307,3506 / felt I was found when He
- #include <disclaimer.h> / looked at me with His
- #include "disclaimer.h" /* cover all bases */ / forgiving eyes." - Michael Card
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