############################################# # 2020/12/21 - PsychDOS 0.0.1 - Lock Screen # ############################################# I have been working on a lock screen. The plan for that so far is to have an area that displays a custom public message with a button friends can click to view messages just for them if the correct password is entered. The next section below that is a textbox and a submit button for anyone to leave the user a message while away from the computer but the user only sees them when they unlock the screen. The gnome-screensaver for GNOME2 had a feature similar to this and xscreensaver could have possibly had it too if the people that worked on the GNOME version had not tried to reinvent the wheel. https://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html#gnome-screensaver. But ranting aside, I did have an idea in which the file that contains the password would be encrypted using the same password and then if the decrypted file contents match what was in the password input box, it would "unlock" the screen. However, any appopriately licensed encryption program I have found so far has no actual password checking, meaning that an incorrect password will "garbage-up" the file contents beyound repair.