Hi,
onefang writes:
> For what it's worth I just discovered that xscreensaver now has
> xscreensaver-systemd, and is running on my Chimaera desktop. "The
> xscreensaver-systemd program is a helper program to integrate
> xscreensaver with systemd(1)."
>
> I've been having problems with screen blanking / monitor power off
> recently. Can we blame systemd now?
>
> Soooo, I just want to be able to lock the screen manually, or have it
> lock after a configurable time out. Once locked, the monitors should
> be powered down after a short time out. No fancy OpenGL screen
> savers, just blanking, locking, and monitor power off. So waving my
> mouse around or hitting some random key should then bring up a
> password prompt so I can unlock it. Is there something that can do
> that which hasn't been infected with systemd?
I'm using slock (from suckless-tools) on Xfce4 and i3. On Xfce4 it is
executed via xflock4 (a shell script, attached, that also seems to
handle turning off the display's backlight. On i3 I just run it from
dmenu at the moment (still need to configure a keybinding).
slock does not respond to the mouse, only the keyboard. There's no
password dialog, you just start typing your password and the screen
turns blue. On a bad password the screen goes red (after you hit
return). In that case just start typing again.
I don't think it supports configuring an auto-lock time, at least not
with a recompile, but perhaps xss-lock can help with that. Haven't used
it myself (yet?) though. See the manual page at
https://bitbucket.org/raymonad/xss-lock/src/master/doc/xss-lock.1.rst.in
for details.
Hope this helps,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen.
#!/bin/sh
#
# xfce4
#
# Copyright (C) 1999, 2003 Olivier Fourdan (four...@xfce.org)
# Copyright (C) 2011 Guido Berhoerster (guido+xfce....@berhoerster.name)
# Copyright (C) 2011 Jarno Suni (8...@iki.fi)
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
#
# First test for the command set in the session's xfconf channel
LOCK_CMD=$(xfconf-query -c xfce4-session -p /general/LockCommand)
# Lock by xscreensaver or gnome-screensaver, if a respective daemon is running
for lock_cmd in \
"$LOCK_CMD" \
"xfce4-screensaver-command --lock" \
"xscreensaver-command -lock" \
"light-locker-command --lock" \
"gnome-screensaver-command --lock" \
"mate-screensaver-command --lock"
do
if [ ! -z "$lock_cmd" ]; then
$lock_cmd >/dev/null 2>&1 && exit
fi
done
# else run another access locking utility, if installed
for lock_cmd in \
"xlock -mode blank" \
"slock"
do
set -- $lock_cmd
if command -v -- $1 >/dev/null 2>&1; then
$lock_cmd >/dev/null 2>&1 &
# turn off display backlight:
xset dpms force off
exit
fi
done
# else access locking failed
exit 1
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