Locking the screen

[EC]

On Sat, 24 Dec 2005 09:45:41 +0000
Peter Humphrey <prh at gotadsl.co.uk> wrote:

> 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?

It's not that bad, xscreensaver has some wide-ranging capabilities.
But if you have no interest in fancy gl screen savers or the like look
at xlock (more) as was previously suggested.
http://packages.gentoo.org/packages/?category=x11-misc;name=xlockmore

It does not have the client-server model of xscreensaver, just run
xlock and your screen will be password locked.