Feature request, but must be universallly accepted by ALL blanker authors

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 03 October 2020 04:17:53 Vladimir Dergachev wrote:

> On Sat, 3 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday 03 October 2020 00:39:27 Vladimir Dergachev wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>> Greetings x-people;
> >>>
> >>> The LinuxCNC people have just brought it up from Debian wheezy to
> >>> buster for a base install.
> >>>
> >>> But the security paranoia is going to get someone maimed or
> >>> killed.
> >>>
> >>> Someone has decreed that the screen blanker must be subject to a
> >>> new login before anything can be done about a runaway machine with
> >>> enough horsepower at its disposal to kill.
> >>
> >> Just to chime in, this is not an X problem per se, but rather the
> >> desktop environment.
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> >> X does not have a utility to ask for your password - just a way to
> >> blank the screen and turn off the monitor.
> >>
> >> If you were to prevent X from blanking the screen, then what would
> >> likely happen is that it will not go blank, but instead you will
> >> see either a screensaver or a password prompt from whatever screen
> >> locker your desktop environment is using.
> >
> > Which for xfce4 is light-locker. But removing it with apt destroys
> > the system by removeing 70+ other packages including ours.  Thats
> > not an acceptable solution.
>
> This is surprising. It is hard for me to see why your package - or any
> package - would depend on a screensaver. I would normally expect only
> the meta package that pulls in the full environment to depend on it.
>
> > FWIW, I have tried mightily, to lengthen the intervals from 10
> > minutes on this stretch install running TDE. But something resets it
> > to 10 minutes before the 10 minutes is up. So xset is neutered and
> > worthless. Frankly, linux is as bad as winderz in determining what
> > you can and cannot do. If there was an alternative that put the
> > machines control back in the uses hands, I'd jump on it like stink
> > on a skunk.
>
> Looking on github, I found the following file
>
> https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker/blob/master/src/light-lock
>er-command.c
>
> which suggests there are several ways to disable it, including one
> where you can simulate user activity.
>
> This was just a quick look, it would probably be best to talk to
> light-locker developers.
>
> best
>
> Vladimir Dergachev

And where might I find those folks?

Thank you Vladimir.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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