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Screen locking programs on Xorg 1.11


From: Gu1 <gu1 () consortium-of-pwners net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:03:52 +0100

Hi,
I recently found out that it is possible to kill a screensaver/screen
locker program on the latest version of Xorg (1.11 shipped with
archlinux, debian wheezy..) using the Ctrl+Alt+Multiply key binding.

This behavior seems to have been introduced in a recent commit[1] and i
couldn't find a way to disable it.

All screen locking programs i tested (gnome-screensaver, kscreenlocker,
slock, slimlock...), are basically rendered useless.

Not sure if this is a bug or a feature... :)


[1]:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=7d2543a3cb3089241982ce4f8984fd723d5312a1


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