On Tue, Aug 15 2017, tomr <t...@equalit.ie> wrote:
> I've been struggling to get X to lock by calling xlock(1) from
> /etc/apm/{hibernate,resume,standby,suspend}
>
> Haven't seen a lot of useful debug output from xlock...
>
> # xlock -verbose ; echo $?
> 1
> # xlock -verbose -display :0.0 ; echo $?
> No protocol specified
> 1
> #On my single-user laptop I use $ cat /etc/apm/suspend #!/bin/sh su - mylogin -c ' export DISPLAY=:0 xlock & ' > I've figured out an effective workaround I think, which is to SIGUSR1 my > running xidle(1) process, which works. That's probably less hackish and better on multi-user machines. > I'm just wondering if there's a > better way to get apmd, running /etc/apm/* as root, to do the same. I > tried calling xlock both as root and as the current X user, no > noticeable difference in results. -- jca | PGP : 0x1524E7EE / 5135 92C1 AD36 5293 2BDF DDCC 0DFA 74AE 1524 E7EE
