Timeline for Disable Keyboard & Mouse input on unix (under X)
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| Jan 2, 2023 at 18:46 | comment | added | NotAnyMore | @SamWatkins -- look at the first 2 lines in the Makefile for shadow password support | |
| Sep 29, 2014 at 22:38 | comment | added | Alexander Shcheblikin | Is it possible to eat X input events with a standard X toolset and a shell script? | |
| Feb 19, 2014 at 23:16 | comment | added | NotAnyMore | BTW, you can specify the password on the commandline or via a environment variable now. | |
| Jun 3, 2013 at 15:20 | comment | added | NotAnyMore | why do you not want root? why not suid the xl binary? | |
| May 16, 2013 at 4:41 | comment | added | Sam Watkins | Your answer is a great example of "suckless" or unix programming "do one thing and do it well" ... except that it doesn't work for me (with shadow passwords!) For my use case I'm happy to hard-code a password, so that's okay. Now teach me how to disable the power button, that's my baby's favourite button! | |
| May 16, 2013 at 4:35 | comment | added | Sam Watkins | I voted for this as it is the kind of solution I want, but it doesn't work for me on Linux with shadow passwords. A process has to be root to access /etc/shadow and associated functions, but I want to run xl as a non-root user. My use case: when we watch shows on the computer, my baby daughter likes to bash on the keyboard! xscreensaver is not helpful for this | |
| Nov 30, 2011 at 8:59 | history | answered | NotAnyMore | CC BY-SA 3.0 |