X11 and virtual consoles.... (startx + vlock)

[Bigby Findrake]

1. What about backgrounding startx and then exiting your shell?

2. Have you tried using "lock -np" instead of vlock?

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Eric Schuele wrote:

> Eric Schuele wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> [hadn't worn my newbie hat lately... so I thought I'd try it on.]
>> 
>> Is there a way to run X via startx and prevent someone from switching back 
>> to the console that started it and pressing Ctrl-C, without using 
>> DontVTSwitch in my xorg.conf file?
>> 
>> I would like to be able to use multiple virtual consoles.  But do not like 
>> the idea of someone switching back to *my* virtual console... killing X and 
>> having my account available to them.  This way I could lock my session via 
>> xscreensaver, and walk away.  Then someone else could login and use the 
>> machine... just not *my* account.
>> 
>> I had envisioned something like a script that did the following:
>>   #!/bin/sh
>>   startx &
>>   vlock
>> 
>> Yet vlock does not like this at all.  I was hoping to background startx... 
>> and then lock the virtual console. :)
>
> A little more info....
> So it appears that vlock works if I "manually" background startx from the 
> console, and then run vlock.  but inside the script vlock gets into a loop in 
> which it thinks it is seeing keystrokes... and repeatedly (quickly) says that 
> the password is bad, please try again.   It does this forever.
>
> Additionally, the script works just fine for root.  It behaves exactly as I 
> would like.  It startx and then locks the console.
>
> Lastly,  I have done a bit more googling, looking for vlock and startx 
> specifically... and found that (at least in the past) many people have done 
> it this way with success.  I'm not sure what I might be doing wrong here.
>
> I did turn up one bug that sounds very much like what I am experiencing but 
> it appears to have been fixed some time ago.  I wonder if there is a 
> regression?  Anyone using `startx &; vlock` successfully?
>
>> 
>> Is there anything that might accomplish something similar?
>> 
>> Thanks.
>> 
>
>
> -- 
> Regards,
> Eric
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