I stand corrected in my "interim" language. David J. Haines dhaines@xxxxxxxxx On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 20.01.2012 02:08, schrieb Tavian Barnes: >> IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the >> screen lockers. >> >> http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/217 >> > > This post is horribly wrong. > > 1) The documentation cited is from Xorg 6.8, which is terribly old. > 2) The options cited do not exist anymore. > 3) With the removal of the 'misc' extension, the API to disable these > features does not exist anymore. Even when the options still existed, > the documentation was updated accordingly, see [1]. > > So, you are wrong, the screen lockers have no way to fight this. > Disabling these keys in keymaps is not an interim solution, but the > final one. > > [1] > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=1a573e402ec112913a404f092b5b97d8d9210f94 >
