Re: [gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

[Laurence Perkins <lperkins@openeye.net>]

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You could also leave DontVTSwitch on all the time and set a keyboard
shortcut to run chvt (man 1 chvt) with appropriate permissions and
parameters instead.  Keyboard shortcuts shouldn't get processed if the
screen is locked.

LMP

On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 21:01 +0000, artur.tamm.85@gmail.com wrote:
> I tried to google if it is possible to change xorg serverflags in
> runtime,  
> but was unable to find anything. I think that would be a cleaner
> solution  
> (changing the DontVTSwitch option before locking and then restoring
> later).
> 
> Artur
> 
> Ian Zimmerman writes:
> 
> > On 2019-07-11 09:57, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > 
> > > > setxkbmap -option srvrkeys:none
> > > > i3lock -c 003355 -n
> > > > setxkbmap -option ''
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the idea!  It won't work as is for me because I
> > > already use
> > > some non-default xkb options.  But it is closer than anything
> > > that has
> > > come up yet.  I'll get there.
> > 
> > Okay, I got it to work in a brute force way: I just added another
> > setxkbmap command to set my normal options, the same ones as in my
> > xorg.conf.
> > 
> > But something weird happens when I try the fancy way: saving the
> > options
> > with "setxkbmap -print >FILE" and then restoring them with "xkbcomp
> > FILE".  It seems that the change I make with "setxkbmap -option
> > FOO" is
> > never reflected in the output of "setxkbmap -print".
> > 
> > Looks like another place with multiple "levels" of configuration
> > stepping over each other.
> > 
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