Re: Possible flaw in XFree?

From: Edsel Adap (edsel@adap.org)
Date: 06/29/02


Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2002 03:19:29 -0400
From: Edsel Adap <edsel@adap.org>
To: "William N. Zanatta" <william@veritel.com.br>


xlock is supposed to lock the X Session... Not the system.
Even if you press ctrl-alt-del or ctrl-alt-FN to get to a console, the
X session still remains locked. So xlock is doing its job. No bug
here.

If you want to lock the consoles, just leave them at the login prompt.

On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 02:34:01PM -0300, William N. Zanatta wrote:
> The
> problem I see is: once the X session is locked, it is suposed to LOCK
> the system

> william

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