support for locking terminal

[jonassmedegaard]

Would be cool if possible to password-protect, similar to xscreensaver-command -lock.

Perhaps integrate with vlock?

[brunobraga]

This is a great idea.... It comes down to the screensaver interaction with the keyboard... my initial thoughts were to, somehow (and for those who want it), run in background and start if the terminal stays idle for N minutes... then, getting out of it would be by hitting any key instead of ctrl+C, with the plus option of locking you've just said.

I was, however, planning to minimize package dependencies for better platform compatibility, and release plugins that could be platform dependent. This is still a work-in-progress... plan to release a first plugin by next month.

What do you reckon? A plugin to add such feature, or perhaps write the vlock clone in pure python?

[jonassmedegaard]

On 12-05-07 at 06:15pm, Bruno Braga wrote:

This is a great idea.... It comes down to the screensaver interaction
with the keyboard... my initial thoughts were to, somehow (and for
those who want it), run in background and start if the terminal stays
idle for N minutes... then, getting out of it would be by hitting any
key instead of ctrl+C, with the plus option of locking you've just
said.

I was, however, planning to minimize package dependencies for better
platform compatibility, and release plugins that could be platform
dependent. This is still a work-in-progress... plan to release a first
plugin by next month.

What do you reckon? A plugin to add such feature, or perhaps write the
vlock clone in pure python?

Great that you have it on your radar. Sorry, my skills are in other
areas, so I cannot really help much with implementation details.

What do you mean by "hitting any key instead of ctrl+C"? It sure would
need to grab the CTRL+C too, or the very point of "locking" would be
lost, no?

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[brunobraga]

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <
[email protected]

wrote:

Great that you have it on your radar. Sorry, my skills are in other
areas, so I cannot really help much with implementation details.

No worries!

What do you mean by "hitting any key instead of ctrl+C"? It sure would
need to grab the CTRL+C too, or the very point of "locking" would be
lost, no?

Just that now Ctrl+C is the only way to interrupt the program (or, more
obviously if you close the terminal window, or shutdown the machine)... by
enabling key events, any key pressed or mouse movement could be considered
to terminate the screensaver, just as it is in the graphical ones.

[EddieDover]

PR #61 adds the proper hooks to make something like this viable. I'll investigate it in a future feature branch.