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Shark

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Registered: 2011-02-28

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[SOLVED]handler.sh and pm-suspend

Hi

I have no screensaver and no DM. I have installed pm-utils and slock. So  when i close my lid i want to suspend the laptop and lock the screen with slock. In /etc/acpi/handler.sh under button/lid i wrote:

pm-suspend && slock

but this just suspend the computer without locking the screen.

What am i missing here?

Thanks!

Last edited by Shark (2011-08-15 08:55:57)

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firecat53

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Re: [SOLVED]handler.sh and pm-suspend

     button/lid)
         if [ `/bin/awk '{print $2}' /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state` = closed ]; then
                 DISPLAY=:1.0 su -c - firecat53 /usr/local/bin/lock.sh
                 /usr/sbin/pm-suspend 
         fi
         ;;

The key is setting the DISPLAY since slock is an X program. I had some other pre-suspend stuff in my lock.sh script, but you can just use /usr/bin/slock. You can also play with and see which works better: having slock run before or after the suspend.

Good luck!
Scott

Last edited by firecat53 (2011-07-28 20:51:25)

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Shark

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Re: [SOLVED]handler.sh and pm-suspend

Hi

Thanks for help but that doesn't work. I even changed /usr/local/bin/lock.sh to /usr/bin/slock but doesn't do the trick.

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Shark

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From: /dev/zero

Registered: 2011-02-28

Posts: 686

Re: [SOLVED]handler.sh and pm-suspend

     button/lid)
         if [ `/bin/awk '{print $2}' /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state` = closed ]; then
                 DISPLAY=:1.0 su -c - firecat53 /usr/local/bin/lock.sh
                 /usr/sbin/pm-suspend 
         fi
         ;;

The key is setting the DISPLAY since slock is an X program. I had some other pre-suspend stuff in my lock.sh script, but you can just use /usr/bin/slock. You can also play with and see which works better: having slock run before or after the suspend.

Good luck!
Scott

Thanks man now it works. I did:

/usr/sbin/pm-suspend 
DISPLAY=:0.0 su -c - shark /usr/bin/slock

Last edited by Shark (2011-08-15 08:56:39)

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