Posts: 80
Rademes
Joined: 26 Dec 2016
#1
Good Day!
I have noticed, that only xlockmore package is available in repositories, which offers only blank screen mode. Also in package description is written, that to be able to use different modes, a package xlockmore-gl should be used. But I can not find it in repositories. How can I install it?

Also xlock uses very small font, because it can not find appropriate font (attachment). How to fix it?
Last edited by Rademes on 10 Feb 2017, 09:31, edited 1 time in total.
Posts: 2,238
dolphin_oracle
Joined: 16 Dec 2007
#2
xlockmore is hosted in the antix forum, and there is not upstream package in debian for quite some time. xlockmore-gl was apparently never brought over. there might be good reasons for that.

however, you can set the font with this.

xlock --font fontname

where the fontname is taken from the list in xlsfonts command output.

i used a terminus font to test that was quite nice.

xlock -font terminus-iso8859-16-bold-24

you can also take advantage of the path system by doing something like this.

1. make a new text file /usr/local/bin/xlock

2. input the following code:

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#!/bin/bash

/usr/bin/xlock -font terminus-iso8859-16-bold-24"$@" &

3. make it executable

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chmod a+x /usr/local/bin/xlock
Now any app that just calls"xlock", like the desktop-session-exit script (the logout/restart/shutdown buttons), will use the modified font parameter.
Posts: 80
Rademes
Joined: 26 Dec 2016
#3
Thank You!