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Keyboard lock applet?

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Hi,

I wonder if something like this exists?   Like a lockscreen,
except that it doesn't completely lock the system --- I want
the screen to be visible and the mouse active, just with the
keyboard disabled.

If not available, would this be something easy to develop?
What sort of information / documentation would I need to look
up?  (is it desktop environment specific?  I mean, is it
something that one would have to do specifically for, say,
GNOME, and specifically for GNOME2 and separately for GNOME3?)

BTW, in case you're wondering, there's a 1.5-year old wandering
around the computers around here --- when I'm away, I lock screen;
but when the little one is around and I'm, say, watching something,
or using some application that can be used exclusively with mouse,
I'd like a solution more practical than a hardware solution such
as having to unplug the keyboard!

Thanks for any tips,

Carlos
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Keyboard lock applet? Carlos Moreno <moreno_news@mailinator.com> - 2012-02-17 11:15 -0500
  Re: Keyboard lock applet? Patrick <patrick2000@a2s46.webhop.net> - 2012-02-17 22:42 +0100
  Re: Keyboard lock applet? Patrick <patrick2000@a2s46.webhop.net> - 2012-02-19 00:00 +0100
    Re: Keyboard lock applet? Carlos Moreno <moreno_news@mailinator.com> - 2012-02-19 18:56 -0500

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