Bug 378073

Summary:	x11-misc/xtrlock: add blank-screen support
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Ihar Hrachyshka <ihar.hrachyshka>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Desktop Misc. Team <desktop-misc>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Customized ebuild Patch to blank screen

Description Ihar Hrachyshka 2011-08-07 12:51:29 UTC

xtrlock is one of the best lightweight alternatives for bloated software like xscreensaver and gnome-screensaver. One thing it seriously lacks is blank screen support. Stock xtrlock allows anyone to see what's going on at screen (while blocking its control). This can be considered as security issue. For those concerned, I've made custom ebuild which makes xtrlock blank screen before locking X session.

The patch is borrowed from: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15678 (by @aragon). Hopefully, this will be useful for other people too.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Ihar Hrachyshka 2011-08-07 12:51:54 UTC

Created attachment 282407 [details]
Customized ebuild

Comment 2 Ihar Hrachyshka 2011-08-07 12:52:09 UTC

Created attachment 282409 [details]
Patch to blank screen

Comment 3 Ihar Hrachyshka 2011-08-07 12:56:51 UTC

If anyone consider pushing it to main tree, then (s)he should make this patch optional.

Comment 4 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2011-08-07 14:30:32 UTC

Introducing new features shouldn't be done on distro level, we try to follow upstream as close as possible. Please submit your patch upstream.

Comment 5 Ihar Hrachyshka 2011-08-07 14:55:18 UTC

I know, I've placed it here just for other people to use it in their local portage trees. No plans to push it in tree.
But yes, I'll check if upstream is active and would add this feature in their tree.

Comment 6 Ihar Hrachyshka 2011-08-07 16:13:54 UTC

"Upstream" bug (which is avctually Debian maintainers): http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=636993