31 Oct
2022
31 Oct
'22
8:59 p.m.
My favorite SunView story was the day I was working in the Pentagon (I
was ron(a)hq.af.mil for a while). One of the Sun workstations had a
Sunview screen lock running and the guy I was visiting was on the phone.
I told him I’d just unlock the thing myself. I promptly set forth
to do so and got it open. He quickly said, “I have to hang up and go
check on something,” and came over and asked how I’d done that.
The screen lock was just a very large window forced to the top of
everything on the screen. If you hit the hot key to iconify it, you
had a fraction of a second to interact before it reasserted itself. So
you keep hitting iconify and maybe getting a letter or two typed into
one of the one terminal windows at a time. You run ps, find the pid of
the screen lock process, and kill it.
-Ron