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On 2024-07-12, Borax Man wrote:
>On 2024-07-10, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:>On 2024-07-10, candycanearter07 wrote:>
>Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 09:31 this Wednesday (GMT):[...]On 2024-07-08, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 10:25 this Monday (GMT):On 2024-07-07, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 01:10 this Sunday (GMT):>
Just wondering what programs (aside from the coreutils/X11 and other
elements that make up a basic install), do you consider to be a vital
part of YOUR Linux install? What are the little additional tools that
you can't live without, or just consider to be necessary that maybe
others wouldn't?
>[...]I'm sure I'm forgetting some here, but[...]xscreensaver (yes i use it as my locker)>>>I always have both XScreenSaver and XLockmore.>
Do they work together?
Not really! I generally just use xlock when I want to lock my screen.
XScreenSaver, well, my kids enjoy watching the bouncing cows, they think
its hilarious!
Oh, IG I'll stick to XSS then. Do you run them directly from
/usr/lib/xscreensaver? (or libexec)
To lock a system running X11, there's also vlock -n -a (At least in the
standalone utility I have in this distro, I think some other package now
also provides a vlock with less features? Or am I misremembering?)
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But with vlock you don't get the fun and interesting part of watching
screensavers.
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vlock on my system only locks the terminal. Useful for a text based
terminal, not for X11.
"vlock -a" locks the "entire console display", -n creates a different
virtual console for vlock to be in while doing this from X11. I think -n
wasn't always necessary in the past, but at least the manual page
suggests it is needed now. (Either I'm misremembering or something
inside earlier versions used to do the -n part automatically?)
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