[arch-general] FS#28008 - Bypass screensaver/locker program on xorg 1.11 and up

David J. Haines dhaines at gmail.com
Fri Jan 20 11:06:19 EST 2012


I stand corrected in my "interim" language.

David J. Haines
dhaines at gmail.com



On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 10:56 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Am 20.01.2012 02:08, schrieb Tavian Barnes:
>> IMO, it's not an X.Org or configuration bug, it's a bug in all the
>> screen lockers.
>>
>> http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2012/q1/217
>>
>
> This post is horribly wrong.
>
> 1) The documentation cited is from Xorg 6.8, which is terribly old.
> 2) The options cited do not exist anymore.
> 3) With the removal of the 'misc' extension, the API to disable these
> features does not exist anymore. Even when the options still existed,
> the documentation was updated accordingly, see [1].
>
> So, you are wrong, the screen lockers have no way to fight this.
> Disabling these keys in keymaps is not an interim solution, but the
> final one.
>
> [1]
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=1a573e402ec112913a404f092b5b97d8d9210f94
>


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