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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.caldera.com!enews.sgi.com!su-news-feed4.bbnplanet.com!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.msfc.nasa.gov!bcm.tmc.edu!news.tamu.edu!news.utdallas.edu!nrchh45.rich.nt.com!crchh327.rich.bnr.ca!news From: Marvin Foster <mefoster@nospam.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Xlock Date: Thu, 05 Jun 1997 09:37:11 -0500 Organization: Bell Northern Research Lines: 19 Message-ID: <3396CF17.2AB6@nospam.com> References: <95D34D6861725A5F.32BB2A347BB47BC6.7F83B889FB893CF3@library-proxy.airnews.net> <Pine.A32.3.95.970604104108.21610A-100000@nermal.select.com.au> <slrn5pbioj.l0.vibes@pc193.janco.sn.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: cgrwh163.rich.bnr.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; HP-UX A.09.05 9000/712) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42450 Jørn-Morten Innselset wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Jun 1997 10:41:44 +1000, Brett Worth <brett@select.com.au> wrote: > > >The xset command is what you want. > > Speaking of which - is there a way to get Xlock (Xlockmore) to invoke after > a preset number of minutes? I browsed through the man file, not finding > anything appearantly matching. > > -- > http://www.bs.bi.no/people/jinnsels/ > vibes@hipdrome.org Yes, but it's done with the assistance of another program called xautolock. You can run xautolock at X startup and tell it how many minutes of inactivity to delay before doing something and what that something is you want it to do, e.g., run xlock. The package for xautolock is on the 2.2.1 CD and at ftp.freebsd.org.