Re: [gentoo-user] screen locker

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>> [snip]
>> > I've been using xautolock for years and years. What's good about it is you
>> > can have any 'locker' you want. For now, I'm using feh in slideshow mode.
>> > For another, you can specify another program as a 'killer' such as a suspend
>> > or hibernate script. However, for a traditional ss, I have been using xlock
>> > forever - many more modes than xscreensaver, and just a simple binary to
>> > worry about.
>> >
>> > Terry
>>
>> I think I'm going with xautolock and either vlock or xlockmore.  It
>> looks like there isn't an init.d script for xautolock.  What is the
>> best way to run it automatically in Gentoo?
>>
>> Is there a keyboard shortcut to trigger xautolock?
>>
>> - Grant
>>
>
> Grant, I run it among the startup scripts of my window manager. You could
> also put it ~/.xinitrc, but I don't think you can start it before your X
> server is up and running.  If your wm has a keyboard shortcut config, it
> would be simple to bind it to a key, as well.  HTH.
>
> Terry

Thanks, I finally rebooted my laptop and putting xautolock in the
XFCE4 session settings works great.

- Grant