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jarnos

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From: Finland

Registered: 2009-03-22

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Better xflock4

Hello,

I have been working on improving xflock4 script that locks desktop.

I made a git branch that focuses on the script and its usage. You can find the latest version of my script at here.

I have also made a merge request in xfce4-session about these changes:
https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfce4-sess … equests/20

I encourage you to try and test it in different platforms. Feedback is welcome and please tell me, if you find some issues with the script.

You can test and use the modified xflock4 script even if you are using an older release of Xfce. Just copy the script in your machine by name xflock4, make it executable (by 'chmod -x') and put it in a suitable directory listed in PATH so that it is found earlier than the script that comes with your Xfce release. (You may run 'command -v xflock4' to find its directory. For example in Xubuntu you can use /usr/local/bin so that the modified script is used instead of the one found in /usr/bin.) Also run `hash -d xflock4` so that bash forgets the possibly hashed old path for xflock4.

Last edited by jarnos (2022-02-28 12:17:10)