2015-01-02 13:41 GMT+01:00 Evgeni Golov <evgeni@???>:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 02, 2015 at 11:20:35AM +0000, sajolida wrote:
>
> > I've been investigating the screen locking mechanism of those various
> > Debian based live distributions, and I found out that none of them had
> > a real mechanism to do so. They either:
> >
> > - Do not provide any screen locking mechanism (Knoppix, Grml,
> > Jondo Live).
>
> Grml has grml-lock[1], you should have set a proper password before
> using it, obviously ;)
>
FYI, note that Debian disabled the --new switch in vlock which limit now
the desktop locking capability.
Here is what you can read in the NEWS file:
vlock (2.2.2-4) unstable; urgency=medium
This update disables the new.so plugin and thus the --new switch,
because it
proved too hard to fix it properly. See #702705.
See also:
Debian Bug report logs - #702705
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=702705
