xlockwatch

A utility script to use if you run XScreenSaver on Desktop Environments like KDE or Gnome. For example, enabling XScreenSaver to run with KDE requires disabling KDE's own screen saver/screen lock manager, which effectively throws switching layouts in XScreenSaver out of the window. In case your password was in English (US), and you locked your screen with Ukrainian, or Swedish, or any other keyboard layout, you're kinda cooked since they have different character mappings. Hence...

Installation

... is quite simple. You need to

1. Clone the repository anywhere and cd into the project's root directory
2. Run make (Creates a user specific systemd service file)
3. Run make install - it's going to
   1. Copy the watcher script to your $HOME/.local/bin if the directory exists. Otherwise, the script will create it first. The script will be made executable.
   2. Copy the systemd service unit file to your local unit files directory $HOME/.config/systemd/user, if it exists, or create it first.
   3. Enable and start the service.