Locking the screen

[Peter Humphrey]

sofar wrote:

> use xscreensaver - it even gives you a settings manager plugin to change the options

I was going to install this, but:

$ emerge -pv xscreensaver

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies  ...done!
[ebuild  N    ] sys-devel/bc-1.06-r6  USE="+readline -static" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/urt-3.1b-r1  USE="+X +gif -gs +tiff" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/jbigkit-1.6-r1  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/jasper-1.701.0  USE="+jpeg +opengl" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/netpbm-10.30-r1  USE="+jpeg +png +tiff +zlib" 0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] media-libs/gle-3.0.1-r2  0 kB
[ebuild  N    ] x11-misc/xscreensaver-4.23  USE="-gnome -insecure-savers 
+jpeg -kerberos -krb4 -new-login +nls -offensive +opengl +pam -xinerama" 0 kB


That seems like an awful lot of overkill just to blank the screen. Even 
specifying 'USE="-jpeg -nls -opengl" emerge -pv xscreensaver' only omits 
gle. Is there a lighter way to blank the screen?

-- 
Rgds
Peter.