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grant123
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 Posted: Sun Sep 16, 2012 11:11 am Post subject: Lid closed = screen locked? |
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Can I have the screen locked whenever the laptop lid is closed in xfce4 without using xfce4-power-manager?
How about having the screen turned off when the lid is closed? |
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ppurka
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Best option is to use acpi. It will be independent of your desktop manager. You will need to fill in the following "blanks".
1. Determine the lid close event. Use acpi_listen to find out what event is triggered.
2. Create a file /etc/acpi/events/lid with the contents | Code: | event=button/lid # replace button/lid with your event
action=/etc/acpi/actions/lid "%e" |
3. Create an executable script /etc/acpi/actions/lid that catches this event | Code: | #!/bin/bash
# if launched through a lid event and lid is open, do nothing
# replace the following string with your lid open event string from acpi_listen
[[ "$1" = *button/lid*open ]] && exit 0
# Determine your logged in user, or hard code your username
# See http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-927908-view-previous.html
XUSER="username"
# Launch whatever you want
export DISPLAY=":0.0"
# You might also need to determine the dbus instance if you want to run xfce lock command.
<xfce lock command here> & # Put an "&" at the end if the lock command doesn't exit immediately.
xset dpms force off # will blank screen |
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grant123
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| Posted: Mon Sep 17, 2012 7:12 am Post subject: |
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| Thank you, I've decided to stick with xfce4-power-manager but this should come in handy for someone. |
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