Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder3.hal-mli.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!news.glorb.com!tr22g12.aset.psu.edu!newsflash.concordia.ca!canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca!utnut!rumours.uwaterloo.ca!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Carlos Moreno Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.apps Subject: Keyboard lock applet? Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 11:15:39 -0500 Organization: University of Waterloo Lines: 24 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: cm-16c.uwaterloo.ca Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: rumours.uwaterloo.ca 1329495342 7206 129.97.10.215 (17 Feb 2012 16:15:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@uwaterloo.ca NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:15:42 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.26) Gecko/20120131 Thunderbird/3.1.18 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.os.linux.development.apps:429 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 --