Locked screen

[Tim Taranov]

yeah, this feature request sounds a little dodgy to me too... you
should just ask your kids to disable screen locking or just flip to
other screen and do your stuff there.

On 5/25/05, Fulko.Hew at sita.aero <Fulko.Hew at sita.aero> wrote:
> 
> 
> William John Murray <w.murray at rl.ac.uk> on 05/25/05 11:27 AM wrote:
> 
> > 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 completely dissagree with this feature request!
> 
> If I have locked my screen, I did it for a reason.
> And that reason was, I didn't want _anyone_ else to use my system.
> There should be no way for another user to overide it.
> Only the system administrator should be allowed to do something,
> and that probably would entail killing my processes.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> Your problem appears to be that you want to disable the
> screen locking mechanism so your kids can't lock _you_ out.
> 
> If you need another 'session' you could always flip to another screen,
> login, do your stuff (even startx), log out, and leave the kids'
> screen still locked and untouched.
> 
> 
> 
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