Automatic screen lock when leaving desk

Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Thu Jul 16 08:18:50 UTC 2009


Chad Perrin wrote:
> Does /usr/ports/x11/xscreensaver.app do this?  It almost certainly
> requires the GNUStep framework as a dependency, but you may find a number
> of old "friends" (applications you liked) are available for that
> framework, in varying states of faithfulness to what you remember.  If
> you like the old interface as a whole, you might try using WindowMaker
> with the GNUStep framework.

I already do use WindowMaker -- it's actually a nice fairly light-weight
X11 window manager in it's own right, even if you don't use it with all
the GnuStep desktop apps.

I'll check out xscreensaver.app shortly -- thanks for the tip.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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