Re: Xlock on login

[Rob Adams <readams readams net>]

Perhaps gdm should be preloading gnome components in the background 
after it displays the login screen.  If gnome is in memory already, the 
startup is just a couple of seconds (on my system anyway).

Karel Demeyer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I wanted to propose this as a feature request for GDM, but I'm not sure
> if it's the right place, therefor I ask it here.
>
> Wouldn't it be copol if you could have GDM automaticly log in a specifed
> user (like it's possible now) but have the X-server locked before gnome
> starts up?  So, gnome will start up in te background but the Xserver
> would still be locked so noone can do stuff with your desktop before the
> password is entered.  I'd love this as  because I always save my gnome
> sessions, it takes some time to start up gnome.  Nowadays, I boot my
> computer, wait for GDM, enter my password and wait again.  It would be
> better to just boot my computer, do some stuff, enter my apssword and be
> able to work with it immediately.
>
> What do you think about this ?  Are there security problems ?  Where
> should I propose this ?
>
> Karel Demeyer
> http://gnometux.blogspot.com
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