Re: FVWM: Newbie question

From: Richard Lister <ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu>
Date: Fri, 03 Apr 1998 14:51:53 -0500

On Fri, 3 Apr 1998 14:07:23 -0500 (EST)
Maurice Lafleur <admin_at_ommadawn.cegep-heritage.qc.ca>
wrote concerning 'FVWM: Newbie question':
> I am new at using fvwm. My system is running Slackware Linux 2.0.30 and I
> installed and started to run X only a month or so ago.
>
> My question is the following: is there a way to make fvwm start a lock
> screen program automatically after a certain period of inactivity at the
> console (something similar to a password-protected screen saver in
> windoze).


Maurice

This is nothing to do with the window manager. You want to get
xscreensaver, from http://people.netscape.com/jwz/xscreensaver/.

Can Slackware do RPMs? If so you could try the precompiled RPM from
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/redhat-5.0/i386/RedHat/RPMS/.

Cheers
Ric


Richard J Lister, Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences
Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20007, USA
Phone: +1 202-687 2878
Email: ric_at_giccs.georgetown.edu
Web: http://www.giccs.georgetown.edu/~ric/

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