> Whenever my screen locks (e.g. from my screen saver or from manually
> locking) and I go to unlock, I'm told to press CTRL+ALT+Del, and it says
> it's displaying that so the login screen doesn't get spoofed.
>
> When logging out, I get a window saying it's saving my settings.
>
> Both of these remind me of WinXP. The CTRL+ALT+Del thing is of WinNT (XP
> is based on NT).
>
> Is there a way to turn this off?
>
> Also, if the CTRL+ALT+Del thing is used for unlocking, why not too for
> logging in?

It is normally used for both unlock and login.  It is a generic
implementation of a Secure Attention Key (SAK), without which Linux is
actually less secure than Windows.

The SAK support can be turned off in the KDM control center module.

Tim