Re: [dwm] slock fails

Tako rzecze Denis Grelich (w e-mailu datowanym 2007-06-28, 18:28):

> On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 05:48:32 -0500
> G David Modica <GDavidModica_AT_aaaHawk.com> wrote:
>
> > When I invoke slock via dmenu while in an active tag, the screen
> > blanks for a scecond and then unlocks. The same thing happens if I
> > invoke slock from a terminal.
> >
> > If I invoke slock via dmenu while in an inactive tag (viewing the X
> > root window), it works as expected.
> >
> > I am using dwm-4.2 patch with bstack, but get the same result when I
> > use plain dwm-4.2.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
>
> I have similar experiences regularly. I can't alway reproduce them, but
> it's there.
> slock seems to segfault sometimes. I didn't bother looking into it yet,
> but it's definitely a problem for a security related app.

You guys may want to look into using xtrlock before slock gets fixed. I
find it perfectly adequate for my needs. There was however (about a year
ago) a problem with grabbing the keyboard by dwm and since then I've
been launching it this way:

  { MODKEY|ControlMask, XK_l, spawn, "sleep 1 && exec xtrlock" }, \

The problem might have gone away in later releases of dwm but I was
never bothered to check.

Also there's the alock Google Summer of Code project:

http://code.google.com/p/alock/ ||
http://darkshed.net/projects/alock

They say it's a replacement for the old xtrlock but it actually didn't
work for me at all. When I tried. See what your experiences are if you
can give it a
whatever-you-give-to-whatever-I-couldn't-be-bothered-to-give-a-shit-to.

Best,

antoszka

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