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Comment by anthk

>/usr/X11R6/bin/xlock is installed by default

Most servers will not install Xenocara at all in order to avoid

most security and space issues, as a lot of them now are using

vmm(4) for testing purposes.

Also as xlock moved upsteeam, OpenBSD will stop importing xlock

and maybe the will implement a patched and pledge(4)d slock (with

some features such as passwd display as asterisks) as the

Xenocara's workstation locker.

If would not be weird at all. Today the default wm is FVWM because

of historical respect to BSD's/Unix, but the most common WM used

by OpenBSD fans is, by far, CWM, which came from evilwm.

As Xenocara was already a fork of X, having a patched slock as

"xenolock" would be the next logical step.

Because xlock(4) is a shitty security fest by itself. Not to

blame the OpenBSD developers, but the main project. It's full of

features and slock matches better the OpenBSD's philosophy.

parent anthk 7 years ago

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