i can understand you not wanting a screen saver to kick in.. but afaik, that's what locks the screen.. can you set the screensaver timeout really high and just use blank-screen for the saver? at least then the screen wont blank unless it sits, say, overnight or something, a cpu hog screensaver wont run, and you still have the ability to lock the screen at the touch of a button.. that's what i do here. might work for you until something else comes along. On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 23:15:57 +0200, Sindre Pedersen Bjordal <foolish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The other day I came across this weirdness. I pressed the lock screen > button in the menu and nothing happened. Nothing, it didn't lock, it > didn't display any message, nothing. > > I got into #Fedora and asked around, I was answered quickly, I didn't > have my screen saver configured, that's why lock screen doesn't work. > > I found this rather silly. Locking the screen isn't the same as a screen > saver. Screen savers pop up when you don't use your computer for a > while. Lock screen however, is used to prevent other users accessing the > computer while you're away. I don't use a screen I've disabled it in > the screen saver settings, but I do want to lock screen from time to > time. > > Is there any way we could separate the lock screen and the screen saver, > so that when I press lock screen, it just works, regardless of my screen > saver settings? I don't care what the screen displays when my screen is > locked, I don't care at all. I just want it to lock. > > If it's not possible to separate them, at least give me some kind of > message saying I should configure my screen saver, the last thing we > want to happen is nothing at all. > > > -- > Sindre Pedersen Bjordal <foolish@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > www.fedoraforum.org > > > -- Fedora-desktop-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list
