[LightDM] light-locker 1.0.0 released

[Simon Steinbeiß]

On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 21:15:45 +0200
Peter de Ridder <peter at xfce.org> wrote:

> 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
> 
>  SHA1: 80a02ee6c8efe0834c79b15f391651ff35e14d69
>  MD5:  27d35aeb8ac6774b83dc8ad6ea90c101
> 
> What is light locker?
> =====================
> 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?
> ===============================
> 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.


Correcting ourselves there: it should read "lock your session with 'light-locker-command -l", but I guess y'all figured that out ;)

Cheers,
Simon