xl: The simple X lock
xscreensaver, xlock, xlockmore, all of them, completley useless. They
have overflows, they have buggy drawning routines, they are very prone
to crashing. The more complex they get, the more useless they are. If
a screen locking program decides to crash on me, its not doing a very
good job of keeping my terminal locked. I've had many people just go
to my screen and hit tons of keys just to make it crash, or cycling
the screen saver to get to a certain one known to crash. Absolutly
ridiculous!
This is my solution to the problem. Very simple, very small, very few
features. Doesn't even blank your screen, all this program does is
lock your keyboard and mouse, and only unlocks it if you type your
password and hit return.
Download the code on Github
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