[14650] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.0I: xscreensaver
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Sep 9 16:03:49 1996
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 16:03:46 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: belg4mit@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[14620] in Athena Bugs"
> use the program passively ie; have it activate in locked/password mode
> after a preset amount of time
xscreensaver does not have such a feature. It's not trivial to
support that feature under Xwindows, since the server does not support
a concept of "idle time."
> I left and forgot to logout , returning 2 hours later, the screen
> was blank, but it only took a single keystroke to enter. It did not
> prompt me for my password.
That's the built-in Xwindows screensaver kicking in, not xscreensaver.
