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You don't need to switch to a tty console yourself, you can run vlock -n while in X and it'll switch for you.
by ivank 12y ago
You don't need to switch to a tty console yourself, you can run vlock -n while in X and it'll switch for you.
- 616c 12y agoYou sir are going to cause some late night geekage. Damn you! UPDATE: So am I missing something, because I get more or less the man page below: http://linux.die.net/man/1/vlock http://linux.die.net/man/1/vlock And I see no -n argument. Are you using Linux or some other Unix? What version do you use? (Sorry, I really need to sleep early, but you have to keep telling me how to improve my laptop!)
- ivank 12y agoThat looks like a man page from an old version. I've seen vlock -n on Ubuntu 14.04 and a two-year-old Gentoo. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/vlock.1.html http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/vlock.1.html
- 616c 12y agoTurns out, quite annoyingly, the package on Arch providing vlock, and an older version at that, is kbd, from the Keyboard Project (http://www.kbd-project.org/ http://www.kbd-project.org/). FYI to everyone on Arch, for a current version that makes this work, you need the AUR package vlock-original, and then invoke that as the executable name in the terminal. I already replace xscreensaver and got rid of it. Thanks for the tip!