slimlock does not receive keyboard input when left running for a while

[willardthor]

Ahoy,

First, neat screen locker :-)

I am running Version 0.11-1 of slimlock on my machine, and something strange is happening which I am hoping you can help me understand; either I am not using slimlock correctly, or there is an issue with slimlock which I am hoping you can address.

When I step away from my computer, I run

xautolock -locknow

When I arrive back at my computer within a couple of hours afterwards, I get the desired effect: The slim-themed slimlock screensaver appears, and I can type my password to unlock my X session.

When I arrive at my computer the next day, however, I get the screensaver, but nothing happens when I type. I need to SSH to my computer and kill -9 $(pidof slimlock) to access my session again. Needless to say, this is quite annoying.

The content of my ~/.xinitrc:

#!/bin/bash
xsetroot -cursor_name left_ptr
xautolock -locker slimlock -time 10 &
setxkbmap -model pc -layout us -variant altgr-intl
exec xmonad
xautolock -exit

The content of my /etc/slimlock.conf:

dpms_standby_timeout            60
dpms_off_timeout                600

wrong_passwd_timeout            2
passwd_feedback_x               50%
passwd_feedback_y               10%
passwd_feedback_msg             Authentication failed
show_username                   1
show_welcome_msg                0
tty_lock                        0

All the best, Willard.

[ghost]

I can confirm I have the same issue, slimlock just seems to lock up and refuse to take any input

[willardthor]

When I arrived at my computer just now, slimlock was hanging again, but at the same time, Firefox was on top of slimlock, with a popup saying a script on one of my pages was not responding.

I am guessing the popup, for some reason, got past the hanging slimlock, and brought Firefox along with it.

This is pretty bad, as anyone could have gotten access to my browser (its history, local file browser, ...).

[ghost]

Seems we're shit out of luck as it's no longer maintained, so we'd need to find someone to pick it up again

[dannyn]

My guess is that this is something along the lines of it losing focus and then not taking it back (or at least thats the most obvious thing). I'm going to look into this so not shit out of luck :)

[ghost]

As I said, unless someone picks it up Dannyn. Regardless I've switched to something else but I hope you can fix it regardless ^w^