Debian -- better screen locking

[Marcel]

Am Dienstag 26 August 2008 17:43:26 schrieb Xavier Bestel:
> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 17:20 +0200, Marcel wrote:
> > Am Dienstag 26 August 2008 12:11:33 schrieb arne anka:
> > > > I'm also on Debian. Isn't it best we use a normal screen save and
> > > > lock solution?. Something like xscreensaver, but I'm still not sure
> > > > it can be used without a keyboard.
> > >
> > > as long as aux reliably produces a keyboard, that's no hindrance, isn't
> > > it?
> >
> > What about having the power button not directly make the phone go to
> > suspend (if it even does) but popping up a menu ("lock", "suspend",
> > "shutdown") instead, independent of the used stack/debian desktop?
>
> The best way is to do it like Nokia:
> - one short press on power to popup the menu, some other short presses
> to navigate the menu items, one long press to select.
> - or one long press to directly suspend/shutdown (in fact, that selects
> the first menu item)
>
> That's really really handy. The Nokia menu can shutdown, lock or change
> profile.
>
> 	Xav

Yep, I know this menu (my backup phone's a 3510i) - that would be nice...

-Marcel