Comments on: You deserve a break today! http://madphilosopher.ca/2005/02/you-deserve-a-break-today/ Because being mad is all the rage. A personal weblog of Darren Paul Griffith. Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:44:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Darren http://madphilosopher.ca/2005/02/you-deserve-a-break-today/#comment-141426 Darren Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:50:06 +0000 http://madphilosopher.ca/archives/101#comment-141426 Nguyen: To lock the keyboard and mouse: If you are using X, you would use <a href="http://linux.die.net/man/1/xlock" rel="nofollow">xlock(1)</a>. If you are using a freedesktop (like Gnome), you would use <a href="http://linux.die.net/man/1/xdg-screensaver" rel="nofollow">xdg-screensaver(1)</a> with the "lock" keyword. If you are not using X, then maybe something like <a href="http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/utils/console/" rel="nofollow">lockvc</a> is the right tool. -- Darren Nguyen:

To lock the keyboard and mouse:

If you are using X, you would use xlock(1).

If you are using a freedesktop (like Gnome), you would use xdg-screensaver(1) with the “lock” keyword.

If you are not using X, then maybe something like lockvc is the right tool.

– Darren

]]> By: Nguyen Dinh Trung http://madphilosopher.ca/2005/02/you-deserve-a-break-today/#comment-141411 Nguyen Dinh Trung Fri, 19 Oct 2007 11:06:52 +0000 http://madphilosopher.ca/archives/101#comment-141411 I've been searching for a script that can lock the keyboard, mouse, and turn off the monitor every 50 minutes for 10 minutes. It's easy to set up the crontab to execute hourly scripts. But I can't find the command or utility to lock the keyboard and mouse. For turning off the monitor, I found the command line: $ xset dpms force off Can you give me an hint? Sorry to bother you with my poor English! I’ve been searching for a script that can lock the keyboard, mouse, and turn off the monitor every 50 minutes for 10 minutes.
It’s easy to set up the crontab to execute hourly scripts. But I can’t find the command or utility to lock the keyboard and mouse. For turning off the monitor, I found the command line:

$ xset dpms force off

Can you give me an hint?
Sorry to bother you with my poor English!

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