On Fri, 2004-01-30 at 15:21, Bevan C. Bennett wrote: > Julian Underwood wrote: > > Is there a way to "lock" the screen in Fedora and still see everything > > which is happening on the screen, as if it were unlocked? That is, if > > you try and do something (i.e. move mouse, use keyboard) the console > > will say "no, enter password." Ideas? > > Sounds like a transparent xscreensaver module would do the trick. I > haven't looked at xscreensaver code in a while, but I don't think it > would be too difficult, and I can definately see applications for > something like this. I think that a xscreensaver module will not able to do that, but i may be wrong, read the following from the xscreensaver man page: "When it is time to activate the screensaver, a full-screen black window is created on each screen of the display. Each window is created in such a way that, to any subsequently-created programs, it will appear to be a ââvirtual rootââ window. Because of this, any program which draws on the root window (and which understands virtual roots) can be used as a screensaver."
