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From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: What programs do you make sure are installed on a new Linux install?
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2024 18:26:26 +0100
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On 2024-07-12, Borax Man wrote:

> On 2024-07-10, Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>> On 2024-07-10, candycanearter07 wrote:
>>
>>> Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 09:31 this Wednesday (GMT):
>>>> On 2024-07-08, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>>>>> Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 10:25 this Monday (GMT):
>>>>>> On 2024-07-07, candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid> wrote:
>>>>>>> Borax Man <rotflol2@hotmail.com> wrote at 01:10 this Sunday (GMT):
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Just wondering what programs (aside from the coreutils/X11 and other
>>>>>>>> elements that make up a basic install), do you consider to be a vital
>>>>>>>> part of YOUR Linux install?  What are the little additional tools that
>>>>>>>> you can't live without, or just consider to be necessary that maybe
>>>>>>>> others wouldn't?
>>>>>>>>
>> [...]
>>>>>>> I'm sure I'm forgetting some here, but
>> [...]
>>>>>>> xscreensaver (yes i use it as my locker)
>> [...]
>>>>>> I always have both XScreenSaver and XLockmore.
>>>>>
>>>>> Do they work together?
>>>>
>>>> Not really!  I generally just use xlock when I want to lock my screen.
>>>> XScreenSaver, well, my kids enjoy watching the bouncing cows, they think
>>>> its hilarious!
>>>
>>> Oh, IG I'll stick to XSS then. Do you run them directly from
>>> /usr/lib/xscreensaver? (or libexec)
>>
>> To lock a system running X11, there's also vlock -n -a (At least in the
>> standalone utility I have in this distro, I think some other package now
>> also provides a vlock with less features? Or am I misremembering?)
>>
>> But with vlock you don't get the fun and interesting part of watching
>> screensavers.
>>
>
> vlock on my system only locks the terminal.  Useful for a text based
> terminal, not for X11.

"vlock -a" locks the "entire console display", -n creates a different
virtual console for vlock to be in while doing this from X11. I think -n
wasn't always necessary in the past, but at least the manual page
suggests it is needed now. (Either I'm misremembering or something
inside earlier versions used to do the -n part automatically?)
 
-- 
Nuno Silva