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From: <nunojsilva@ist.utl.pt> (Nuno Silva)
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: escape from i3lock
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 20:11:28 +0100
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On 2019-07-12, Ian Zimmerman wrote:

> On 2019-07-11 21:28, Nuno Silva wrote:
>
>> vlock -n -a
>
> Does vlock work from an XWindow session?  Or would I have to use it on
> top of whatever I do to lock the XWindow session - xscreensaver/i3lock
> etc?

It does work from inside X11 here. I can, for example, run it inside a
terminal emulator or through the window manager.

(You will probably need to add your user to the "vlock" group.)


> (I browsed to the vlock README page on github but it doesn't answer this
> question.)

-- 
Nuno Silva