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The unlock dialog is funny looking, why not use GTK?

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The unlock dialog is funny looking, why not use GTK?

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The short answer is, for security reasons. The unlock dialog is implemented using raw Xlib because it would be very difficult to implement it using a GUI toolkit and still have xscreensaver be secure. More technical details can be found on the On Toolkits page.

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