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From: klee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: looking for a 'timeout and lock workstation' facility
Keywords: lock timeout workstation
Message-ID: <2034@bacchus.dec.com>
Date: 1 Nov 89 18:29:09 GMT
References: <1392@paperboy.OSF.ORG>
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In article <1392@paperboy.OSF.ORG>, aster@osf.osf.org (Salvatore La
pietra) writes:
> I would like to have the facility to have my workstation timeout
> and lock the screen (like the pause option in DEC window manager)
> so that any process I have running are not interrupted
> but my workstation is secured.

The pause option is in the DECwindows session manager.  It does not
timeout and lock, but just locks on user command.  If you're not using
a session manager, you can get similar functionality from programs like
xlock.  Several versions have been posted to the net.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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