Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questions at mailing.thruhere.net
Thu Jul 16 07:56:56 UTC 2009


On Wednesday 15 July 2009 04:53:19 Jonathan McKeown wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 July 2009 12:45:02 Matthew Seaman wrote:
> > I used to be a NeXTie, and the Screensaver.app there had a really nifty
> > little feature.  I'm surprised it's not been copied into other
> > screensaver applications since, as it's pretty simple.  They just had a
> > facility where moving the mouse cursor to one corner of the screen and
> > leaving it still for a few seconds would cause the screen saver / screen
> > lock to come on straight away.

> KDE 3.5 provides this feature - it's under Advanced Options on the
> screensaver configuration.

And 4.x too. Visually timed at ~3 seconds.
-- 
Mel


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