Xlock

kellinjar · 01-31-2006, 12:04 PM

I thoroughly enjoy xlock, but I've got an issue that 100% of the time it will never authenticate the first time i put in my password. I click a button, wait for it to settle down then type my passsword and fails. Type it again and it authenticates right away, and yes I've made sure I'm putting it in correctly.

Anyone run into this problem?

bashyow · 07-08-2008, 05:53 PM

there is an xlock option which may resolve this problem:

-/+usefirst

from the xlock man page:

Quote:

The usefirst option causes xlock to use the keystroke which got you to the password screen as the first character in the password. The default is to ignore the first key pressed.

this option may or may not work, you'll have to try. someoptions wont work for me. its not fully explained how you need to give this option to xlock, i found it confusing with a different -/+option.

btw, i realise this thread is 2 years old, but ive been messing around with xlock trying to change the passwork from the login pass to a custom pass using the 'cpasswd' option, the man page states that the new password needs to be encrypted.does anyone know to do this in xlock so i can have a custom password?

bashyow · 07-08-2008, 05:56 PM

there is an xlock option which may resolve the problem:

-/+usefirst

from the xlock man page:

Quote:

The usefirst option causes xlock to use the keystroke which got you to the password screen as the first character in the password. The default is to ignore the first key pressed.

this option may or may not work, you'll have to try. someoptions wont work for me. its not fully explained how you need to give this option to xlock, i found it confusing with a different -/+option.

btw, i realise this thread is 2 years old, but ive been messing around with xlock trying to change the passwork from the login pass to a custom pass using the 'cpasswd' option, the man page states that the new password needs to be encrypted.does anyone know to do this in xlock so i can have a custom password?

bashyow · 07-08-2008, 05:58 PM

there is an xlock option which may resolve the problem:

-/+usefirst

from the xlock man page:

Quote:

The usefirst option causes xlock to use the keystroke which got you to the password screen as the first character in the password. The default is to ignore the first key pressed.

this option may or may not work, you'll have to try. someoptions wont work for me. its not fully explained how you need to give this option to xlock, i found it confusing with a different -/+option.

btw, i realise this thread is 2 years old, but ive been messing around with xlock trying to change the passwork from the login pass to a custom pass using the 'cpasswd' option, the man page states that the new password needs to be encrypted.does anyone know to do this in xlock so i can have a custom password?