Locked screen

[Bob Chiodini]

On Wed, 2005-05-25 at 16:27 +0100, William John Murray wrote:
>    Hi all,
>        Just a thought for improving Fedora. We now have a 'new login' 
> menu item in gnome at least, which creates a new session nested inside 
> the old. Isn't this MOST useful when someone has left the screen locked?
> I come along, find one of my kids has locked the screen, and I can 
> either 'ctrl-atl-tab' or go and look for him. Bein able to just nest
> a new session would be great.
>        Where does this have to happen? xscreensaver?
>             Bill
> 

You are root on the computer, right.  Unlock the screen with root's
password.

You could also run two X sessions at bootup and Alt-Ctl-F8 into the
second one.  I think hitting return after Atl-Ctl-Fx might be required
to fool the xscreensaver's password dialog.  

Bob...