pm-utils and Locked Screens
April 06, 2010 at 05:54 AM | categories: tips, archlinux | View Commentspm-utils seems to be the clear winner
to userspace suspend and hibernate setup. It's a great back, but, for those of
us who don't run a desktop environment with a power manager, there's one thing
missing: screen locking. I'd like the screen to be locked when my computer
resumes from either suspend or hibernate, and I don't want to run
gnome-power-manager to get that functionality. So,
00lock-screen to the rescue. Just drop that file in
/etc/pm/sleep.d and, as long as you have xscreensaver, gnome-screensaver,
i3lock, or xlock setup, the screen will lock as your computer suspends or
hibernates.
For the Archlinux users, it's already packaged in the AUR: pm-utils-screen-lock
