On Mon, March 18, 2013 7:37 am, drew Roberts wrote: and Warning!! This will require hand editing a file... suggest vi or emacs ;) All kidding aside, for xfce (Xubuntu or UbuntuStudio where this seems to have started) lets do it the gui way :) The settings manager has a selection in the system area called "Session and Startup". This has a dialog that pops up so choose the "Application Autostart" tab. There is an "Add" button at the bottom, it pops up a small dialog... Name: set to "Start Session Locked". Description: "Start Session Locked" (I figure it is self explanatory, but feel free to give a better description). Command: xscreensaver-command -lock Submit that... Ok that took about as much time to figure out as it took to type it all in. Let me test it now :) xscreensaver-command runs too soon and I get: xscreensaver-command: no screensaver is running on display :0.0 in ~/.xsession-errors Ok, try: sleep 5; xscreensave-command -lock It seems that whatever is running the command line does not know what ; means :P What does work: bash -c "sleep 2s ; xscreensaver-command -lock;" And yes, even with 2 seconds delay, at least on my machine, the workstation is locked before the ui is fully up... that is, no menu is yet available. Yes this is probably more than non-CLI literate users can figure out on their own. c-a-f* still works, but the VTs require a password anyway. No I will not be adding this option to UbuntuStudio or suggesting it to the Xubuntu team. (feel free to do so yourself) The only advantage to this I can see is a shorter time from password to use. Could be a pain on machines with more than one user. -- Len Ovens www.OvenWerks.net