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List:       kde-announce
Subject:    ANNOUNCE: kctrlaltdel 0.3
From:       Emanuel Pirker <epirker () edu ! uni-klu ! ac ! at>
Date:       1997-08-10 18:41:41
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Hi everybody!

I've just uploaded kctrlaltdel 0.3 to ftp.kde.org. It should appear in the
usual place /unstable/apps/utils soon.

For those of you who don't know kctrlaltdel: It is a dialog window looking
similar to that one of Windows NT when you press ctrl-alt-del. You can
 + change your password (in a dialog window, NEW!)
 + invoke your favourite taskmanager
 + reboot/shutdown/change runlevel
 + lock the workstation
 + logout from KDE

Done since 0.2:

+ Background darkening
+ Key/Mouse grabbing
+ Config file
+ Password editing dialog
+ Incorporation of kAuth
+ Pops up in the middle of the screen, not just somewhere
+ Code "cleaning"
+ Logout via kwmclient instead of the nasty awk-stuff

Here's the lsm entry:
Begin3
Title:          kctrlaltdel
Version:        0.3
Entered-date:   100897
Description:    Dialog window that should pop up when the user
                types ctrl-alt-del.
Keywords:       ctrlaltdel linux X11 Qt KDE
Author:         epirker@edu.uni-klu.ac.at (Emanuel Pirker)
Maintained-by:  epirker@edu.uni-klu.ac.at (Emanuel Pirker)
Primary-site:
Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.kde.org/pub/kde/apps/utils
                kctrlaltdel-0.3.tgz
Original-site:
Platform:       Linux with Qt GUI library and KDE libraries
Copying-policy: GPL
End

kctrlaltdel uses the kAuth class which provides simple Authentication
features such as obtaining user information, check and set passwords.

I am planning of making kctrlaltdel more portable - currently only kAuth
is a problem - it only supports standard Unix (shadow/nonshadow)
authentication. However, the other features should work fine on other
OSes (you may have to edit the config file, see the README file).

Greets,

Emanuel

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  Emanuel Pirker                        
  Student of Applied Computer Science
  University Klagenfurt, Austria
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