[LightDM] light-locker 1.0.0 released

[Peter de Ridder]

light-locker 1.0.0 is now available for download from


https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker/releases/download/v1.0.0/light-locker-1.0.0.tar.bz2

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What is light locker?
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light-locker is a simple locker (forked from gnome-screensaver) that aims
to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the
desktop while not carrying any desktop-specific dependencies.

Technically, it relies on LightDM for locking and unlocking your session
via ConsoleKit/UPower or logind/systemd.

Why did we create light-locker?
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LightDM has built-in support for user-switching and session-locking, however
it doesn't actually *lock* your session. Meaning if you switch users,
LightDM will re-spawn on a new TTY (by design). If your active TTY is VT7
then it'll re-spawn on VT8. So theoretically users can go back to their
supposedly locked session with Ctrl+Alt+F7. This is where light-locker
steps in. It really locks your session (standing on the shoulders of years
of testing and security of gnome-screensaver, of which it was forked) and
forwards you back to the LightDM greeter in case you really end up on your
locked session VT.

Using light-locker
==================
After installing light-locker, it will auto start along your session and you
will be able to lock your session with "light-locker -l". (There is no
support for gnome-settings-daemon in order to keep things slim, so you
might have to add a custom keyboard-shortcut for this to work.) This will
redirect you to VT8 (assuming that your open session was on VT7 and is now
kept safe by light-locker) and present LightDM's greeter for unlocking your
session again.
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