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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org>
Cc: Christine Lemmer-Webber <cwebber@dustycloud.org>,  help-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What are you doing for a screen locker?
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2023 20:17:57 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ilgyyrp6.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e39a01b-3c91-238c-68a0-49a6f2760a55@disroot.org> (kiasoc5@disroot.org's message of "Sat, 21 Jan 2023 14:54:50 -0500")

Hi,

kiasoc5 <kiasoc5@disroot.org> writes:

> On 1/21/23 13:44, Christine Lemmer-Webber wrote:
>> I used to use xscreensaver.  I kinda miss it.  It's still broken, see
>> bug #57919.
>> But really, the lack of xscreensaver has made me move back to Gnome
>> and
>> recently Gnome started having weird bugs on my hardware, so then I
>> wanted to move back to stumpwm.  But I simply don't understand how to
>> get screen locking to work right without xscreensaver, which at least
>> had made it relatively easy.
>> The cookbook contains some info on how to use session locking with
>> xorg
>> but it doesn't seem like complete information.  I'd be interested if
>> people would share their configurations.  Thanks!
>> 
>
> xlockmore and slock are installed in %base-packages and should work
> out of the box on Xorg.

I use xlockmore, but beware that it'll peak one of your core 100% while
used.  Perhaps there's something better?

-- 
Thanks,
Maxim


  reply	other threads:[~2023-01-23  1:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-01-21 18:44 What are you doing for a screen locker? Christine Lemmer-Webber
2023-01-21 19:54 ` kiasoc5
2023-01-23  1:17   ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2023-01-23  1:24 ` Benjamin Slade

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