gone is screen-message plus a screen locker. The basic idea is that I wanted to leave a message on my (locked) screen, like "be back soon".
Another "feature" of gone is its non-integration with PAM. gone needs a
password-hash as its first parameter, and will not check against any other
system db. This is to encourage different password for different purposes.
- Well, not really well:
- only a single screen get the text, the other will still show everything there's.
- new windows created while you are away (typically IM messages, but could be anything) will be shown above the screen message.
First of all, you should choose your password:
gone password-gen 'P4ssw0rd!'The output, will be something like $6$rounds=678695$6oMtfzrgJtpCCxD6$uqopLEv9pqjt7KXj4kQou3K5yO7XblAPD1q3u2EZfnfv4sdOlX414GNzB4DAv4LEshu0aMwmtxg7biyK5.adN/
Our script locker will therefore be
gone lock '$6$rounds=678695$6oMtfzrgJtpCCxD6$uqopLEv9pqjt7KXj4kQou3K5yO7XblAPD1q3u2EZfnfv4sdOlX414GNzB4DAv4LEshu0aMwmtxg7biyK5.adN/'When you run this command, the script WON'T be locked until you press Ctrl+D. Until that moment, you can type, or exit with Ctrl+Q.
Here they are:
composing; the last (slightly grey) part, without the bottom bar, is the locked screen.
A tipical message you could leave
This is basically a dirty mix of screen-message and pyxtrlock.
GPLv3