NAME¶
xtrlock - Lock X display until password supplied, leaving windows visible
SYNOPSIS¶
xtrlock [-b]
DESCRIPTION¶
xtrlock locks the X server till the user enters their password at the
keyboard.
While
xtrlock is running, the mouse and keyboard are grabbed and the
mouse cursor becomes a padlock. Output displayed by X programs, and windows
put up by new X clients, continue to be visible, and any new output is
displayed normally.
The mouse and keyboard are returned when the user types their password, followed
by Enter or Newline. If an incorrect password is entered the bell is sounded.
Pressing Backspace or Delete erases one character of a password partially
typed; pressing Escape or Clear clears anything that has been entered.
If too many attempts are made in too short a time further keystrokes generate
bells and are otherwise ignored until a timeout has expired.
The X server screen saver continues to operate normally; if it comes into
operation the display may be restored by the usual means of touching a key
(Shift, for example) or the mouse.
OPTIONS¶
- -b
- blank the screen as well as displaying the padlock
X RESOURCES, CONFIGURATION¶
None.
BUGS¶
Additional input devices other than the keyboard and mouse are not disabled.
The timeouts, bitmaps and mouse cursor colour cannot be modifed.
SEE ALSO¶
X(1), Xlib Documentation.
AUTHOR¶
Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
COPYRIGHT¶
Copyright (C) 1993, 1994 by Ian Jackson.
Permission to use, copy, modify and distribute this software and its
documentation is granted under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence,
version 2 or later, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR
A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more
details.