X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
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X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
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Re: X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
#2My experiences with screen locking on Linux over time, using various machines:
* The screen doesn't lock, and remains on while the lid is closed.
* The screen doesn't lock, but does turn off when the lid is closed.
* The screen locks, but the machine doesn't suspend when the lid is closed.
* The screen doesn't turn on after the lid is opened. Key commands work, though.
* The screen turns on after the lid is opened, but is blank (no unlock requestor).
* The machine doesn't resume from suspend, requiring a hard reset.
* The screen locker gets completely bypassed and you're dumped into the desktop (possibly a fresh desktop because the entire environment crashed and restarted).
Throw remote desktop into the mix and you're in for a world of hurt.
I just disable screen locking, and make suspend a manual operation to keep my sanity intact. The trackpad still stops responding sometimes though...
Re: X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
#3My experiences with screen locking on Linux over time, using various machines: * The screen doesn't lock, and remains on while the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't lock, but does turn off when the lid is closed. * The screen locks, but the machine doesn't suspend when the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't turn on after the lid is opened. Key commands work, though. * The screen turns on after the lid is opened, b…
This is one of the reasons I had to stop carrying around a Linux laptop. Had a few times where I'd open up the laptop to find the screen locker randomly bypassed
Re: X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
#4My experiences with screen locking on Linux over time, using various machines: * The screen doesn't lock, and remains on while the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't lock, but does turn off when the lid is closed. * The screen locks, but the machine doesn't suspend when the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't turn on after the lid is opened. Key commands work, though. * The screen turns on after the lid is opened, b…
Interesting. The only issue I've encountered regarding screen locking was that in the past the desktop would be visible for a split second after opening the laptop lid and before the screenlock is displayed. Haven't seen that behaviour in couple years, I think. I use latest Ubuntu at home and latest Ubuntu LTS at work. Typically Lenovo and HP laptops, some Asus Zenbooks also in the past.
Re: X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
#5My experiences with screen locking on Linux over time, using various machines: * The screen doesn't lock, and remains on while the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't lock, but does turn off when the lid is closed. * The screen locks, but the machine doesn't suspend when the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't turn on after the lid is opened. Key commands work, though. * The screen turns on after the lid is opened, b…
Most of what you describe isn't the screen lock but sounds more like something isn't communicating system events properly. That or bad hardware with poor open source driver vendor support.
Also, this is why I don't use Linux any more. It's grown into a dumpster fire of ad-hoc patches from big corps looking to hammer every last drop of cloud server performance or poorly designed desktops made by people who obviously don't use them.
Plan 9 front is my daily driver with OpenBSD/FreeBSD if I need a Unix. Windows 7 still powers my gaming rig by it most likely will move to Linux because Steam. Probably the only reason I need Linux and Windows 7 still isn't enough of a reason to switch....
Re: X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
#6My experiences with screen locking on Linux over time, using various machines: * The screen doesn't lock, and remains on while the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't lock, but does turn off when the lid is closed. * The screen locks, but the machine doesn't suspend when the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't turn on after the lid is opened. Key commands work, though. * The screen turns on after the lid is opened, b…
Interesting. The only issue I've encountered regarding screen locking was that in the past the desktop would be visible for a split second after opening the laptop lid and before the screenlock is displayed. Haven't seen that behaviour in couple years, I think. I use latest Ubuntu at home and latest Ubuntu LTS at work. Typically Lenovo and HP laptops, some Asus Zenbooks also in the past.
This still happens to me. Asus UX305UA, Xubuntu 19.10 with xscreensaver.
Re: X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
#7I'm getting by mostly by `xss-lock -- /usr/bin/slock`
https://github.com/kaihendry/dotfiles/blob/master/.xinitrc#L...
But yeah, one of those things that's surprisingly tricky to get right.
Re: X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
#8My experiences with screen locking on Linux over time, using various machines: * The screen doesn't lock, and remains on while the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't lock, but does turn off when the lid is closed. * The screen locks, but the machine doesn't suspend when the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't turn on after the lid is opened. Key commands work, though. * The screen turns on after the lid is opened, b…
Interesting. The only issue I've encountered regarding screen locking was that in the past the desktop would be visible for a split second after opening the laptop lid and before the screenlock is displayed. Haven't seen that behaviour in couple years, I think. I use latest Ubuntu at home and latest Ubuntu LTS at work. Typically Lenovo and HP laptops, some Asus Zenbooks also in the past.
Interestingly this has started happening on my mac, as of a few years ago. Obviously unrelated to Linux.
Re: X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
#9My experiences with screen locking on Linux over time, using various machines: * The screen doesn't lock, and remains on while the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't lock, but does turn off when the lid is closed. * The screen locks, but the machine doesn't suspend when the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't turn on after the lid is opened. Key commands work, though. * The screen turns on after the lid is opened, b…
Interesting. The only issue I've encountered regarding screen locking was that in the past the desktop would be visible for a split second after opening the laptop lid and before the screenlock is displayed. Haven't seen that behaviour in couple years, I think. I use latest Ubuntu at home and latest Ubuntu LTS at work. Typically Lenovo and HP laptops, some Asus Zenbooks also in the past.
I haven't seen that in default Gnome for years, but it still happens when using i3 or Regolith.
Re: X11 screen locking: a secure and modular approach
#10My experiences with screen locking on Linux over time, using various machines: * The screen doesn't lock, and remains on while the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't lock, but does turn off when the lid is closed. * The screen locks, but the machine doesn't suspend when the lid is closed. * The screen doesn't turn on after the lid is opened. Key commands work, though. * The screen turns on after the lid is opened, b…
It's 2020 and locking your screen on Linux is unreliable. It's difficult to promote Linux as a worthy consumer desktop OS alternative.