gone is screen-message plus a screen locker. The basic idea is that I wanted to leave a message on my (locked) screen, like "be back soon".

Another "feature" of gone is its non-integration with PAM. gone needs a password-hash as its first parameter, and will not check against any other system db. This is to encourage different password for different purposes.

Well, not really well:

• only a single screen get the text, the other will still show everything there's.
• new windows created while you are away (typically IM messages, but could be anything) will be shown above the screen message.

First of all, you should choose your password:

gone password-gen 'P4ssw0rd!'

The output, will be something like $6$rounds=678695$6oMtfzrgJtpCCxD6$uqopLEv9pqjt7KXj4kQou3K5yO7XblAPD1q3u2EZfnfv4sdOlX414GNzB4DAv4LEshu0aMwmtxg7biyK5.adN/

Our script locker will therefore be

gone lock '$6$rounds=678695$6oMtfzrgJtpCCxD6$uqopLEv9pqjt7KXj4kQou3K5yO7XblAPD1q3u2EZfnfv4sdOlX414GNzB4DAv4LEshu0aMwmtxg7biyK5.adN/'

When you run this command, the script WON'T be locked until you press Ctrl+D. Until that moment, you can type, or exit with Ctrl+Q.

Here they are:

composing; the last (slightly grey) part, without the bottom bar, is the locked screen.

A tipical message you could leave

This is basically a dirty mix of screen-message and pyxtrlock.

GPLv3