On 12/12/06, James Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
xidle was a great suggestion thanks. The below script doesn't work either, and for some reason when running apmd in debug mode nothing gets outputted from what I can tell. For locking the screen before suspend I'll probably just stick with Theo's suggestion and run xlock & zzz, although I would love it to work on lid closer also.
That's what I do. I also unmount and mount NFS with -endCmd in xlock. Greg
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006, Paul de Weerd wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 11:13:08PM -0500, James Turner wrote: > | I've read the apmd and xlock man pages and am having trouble getting xlock > | to start after a resume. I created the file /etc/apm/resume and chmod > | 755. But for some reason, it doesn't run on resume. Permissions are > | root/wheel. On a weird note, when I ran sudo apmd rather then letting > | apmd start on boot xlock worked but it locked as root and not my logged in > | user. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get xlock to start on a > | resume. > | > | The contents of /etc/apm/resume are: > | #!/bin/sh > | xlock -mode matrix > > From your description, I'd say that xlock can not find the DISPLAY > environment variable (only set within X) to run xlock on. Then, when > you start xlock by hand (probably from within X, thus giving it a > valid DISPLAY to connect to), it runs as root simply because apmd runs > as root. > > Try putting xidle in your .xinitrc and have that run xlock. xidle then > runs under your own uid and will spawn an xlock owned by you which you > can then unlock using your own password. > > An alternative might be to change your script. I have not tested the > following, so it may or may not work : > > #!/bin/sh > export DISPLAY=:0.0 > sudo -u <yourusernamehere> /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock -mode matrix > > I find this, however, to be ugly and not the way things should be > done. Of course, YMMV. > > Cheers, > > Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd > > -- >> ++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<+++++++.>+++[<------>-]<.>+++[<+ > +++++++++++>-]<.>++[<------------>-]<+.--------------.[-] > http://www.weirdnet.nl/
