Bug 249330

Summary: add a transparent see-thru screensaver (keyboard/mouse lock only, screen is displayed)
Product: [Unmaintained] kscreensaver Reporter: ola <zyagon>
Component: generalAssignee: kscreensaver bugs tracking <kscreensaver-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist    
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Unlisted Binaries   
OS: Linux   
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Description ola 2010-08-28 16:42:10 UTC 
Version:           unspecified
OS:                Linux

there is a security risk on workstations with the only purpose to display on screen information/stats/monitoring and do not require keyboard/mouse input during normal operation. they may be unattended at some times and input should remain locked unless password is entered.

this is a basic feature available in sun and windows desktops but not yet in kde. i understand the purpose of a screensaver is to keep monitor working and a transparent screensaver would not do it (not needed in this case either) but looks like it's the best place to implement this feature

this feature may improve security to IT/support staff, bank/trading information screens, embedded systems and other setup's where screen has to update the whole time but input devices should remain locked 



Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-08-29 00:24:15 UTC 
the info display thingie could be done by using the plasma widgets on screensaver feature. other than that, this is a dupe ...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 194428 ***