On Thu, 2006-16-02 at 17:29 -0500, William Yardley wrote: > Is there a way to (automatically and / or manually) lock the screen > besides using "gdmflexiserver"? I think that's more intended for > starting a second session than locking the existing session. > > I'd like something like what xscreensaver does, only with the gdm login > screen. Whoops. Forget what I wrote earlier. In gdm.conf, find these options: BackgroundProgram RunBackgroundProgramAlways Change them to something like this: BackgroundProgram=xscreensaver -nosplash RunBackgroundProgramAlways=true There are more details in the xscreensaver man page under the "Using GDM" section. HTH, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4 i686 GNU/Linux 20:44:29 up 13:44, 4 users, load average: 1.12, 0.72, 0.67
