<div dir="ltr"><div>light-locker 1.0.0 is now available for download from</div><div><br></div><div> <a href="https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker/releases/download/v1.0.0/light-locker-1.0.0.tar.bz2">https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker/releases/download/v1.0.0/light-locker-1.0.0.tar.bz2</a></div>
<div><br></div><div> SHA1: 80a02ee6c8efe0834c79b15f391651ff35e14d69</div><div> MD5: 27d35aeb8ac6774b83dc8ad6ea90c101</div><div><br></div><div>What is light locker?</div><div>=====================</div><div>light-locker is a simple locker (forked from gnome-screensaver) that aims</div>
<div>to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the</div><div>desktop while not carrying any desktop-specific dependencies.</div><div><br></div><div>Technically, it relies on LightDM for locking and unlocking your session</div>
<div>via ConsoleKit/UPower or logind/systemd.</div><div><br></div><div>Why did we create light-locker?</div><div>===============================</div><div>LightDM has built-in support for user-switching and session-locking, however</div>
<div>it doesn't actually *lock* your session. Meaning if you switch users,</div><div>LightDM will re-spawn on a new TTY (by design). If your active TTY is VT7</div><div>then it'll re-spawn on VT8. So theoretically users can go back to their</div>
<div>supposedly locked session with Ctrl+Alt+F7. This is where light-locker</div><div>steps in. It really locks your session (standing on the shoulders of years</div><div>of testing and security of gnome-screensaver, of which it was forked) and</div>
<div>forwards you back to the LightDM greeter in case you really end up on your</div><div>locked session VT.</div><div><br></div><div>Using light-locker</div><div>==================</div><div>After installing light-locker, it will auto start along your session and you</div>
<div>will be able to lock your session with "light-locker -l". (There is no</div><div>support for gnome-settings-daemon in order to keep things slim, so you</div><div>might have to add a custom keyboard-shortcut for this to work.) This will</div>
<div>redirect you to VT8 (assuming that your open session was on VT7 and is now</div><div>kept safe by light-locker) and present LightDM's greeter for unlocking your</div><div>session again.</div><div><br></div></div>