Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > I'm afraid this is racy by default. Machine resumes, then Xscreensaver > is being told that it should lock, but bad user may type in console in > meantime or something. i do of course lock the screen before suspend, but some screensavers are not synchronous and take some time to actually lock. It is a mess. > Synchronous notification *before* suspend might do the trick, > through. Tell Xscreensaver to lock, wait for it to lock, only then > proceed with suspend. That seems only safe solution. Yes, but you'll need another ~10 seconds until power off. Both xscreensaver and kde screensaver are not from the speedy department :-( -- Stefan Seyfried, QA / R&D Team Mobile Devices, SUSE LINUX Nürnberg. "Any ideas, John?" "Well, surrounding them's out."