[gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock

[artur.tamm.85@gmail.com]

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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