'Screen lock' to fill up the whole display - cde

[Russell Gould]

Hi everyone !

Can anyone advise how to make the screen lock populate the whole of the display so that users cannot see what is being run on the system without entering a valid password to unlock it.

I have removed the 'screen' icon from Style manager (Dtstyle) (because I don't want users having access to it)

Current entries relating to dtsession in sys.resources are ....

dtsession*saverTimeout: 0
dtsession*lockTimeout: 30
dtsession*cycleTimeout: 3
dtsession*saverList: StartDtscreenBlank
dtsession*extension.saverTimeout: 0
dtsession*lockImageName: (filename.XPM)

Thanks

Whilst we are on the subject, can anyone explain why (with the above settings, the screen goes blank after a period of time, and when you wiggle the mouse, you can see that it's locked (this could be 30mins!)) - is this because a saver value of 0 for saverTimout will instead be driven by the lockTimeout ??

On a side issue - what does cycleTimeout mean ?

Thanks in advance - you all continue to demonstrate excellent skills and be an invaluable resource - Thanks for making life that bit easier !!

Russell

[Steve Steel]

Hi

You need the blank saver

dtsession*extension. saverTimeout: 30
dtsession*extension. lockTimeout: 30
dtsession*saverTimeout: 30
dtsession*lockTimeout: 30
dtsession*cycleTimeout: 3
dtsession*saverList: StartDtscreenBlank

##############################################
NOTE make sure lockTimeout <= saverTimeout
##############################################

Then the screen disappears. The lock window is builtin

Steve Steel

[Alex Glennie]

cycleTimeout - good question ...it's undocumented and I don't know .... one of the HP WTEC engineers who patrol this site may have an idea.I'd set it to 0 though.

As to screenlock and the entire screen : I'd enable the blank screen option as per Steve suggestion, I guess the only other way would be to set the lock image to a large xpm ( I havent tried this and it may not work) see
/usr/dt/config/C/sys.resources

lastly have you got DPMS enabled ? sam -> display-> xserver config-> modify screen options-> minimum monitor power save level as it may have some effect here ?