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Phalkon

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Registered: 2014-10-19

Posts: 117

LightDM won't suspend when screen is locked

Hi,

I'm using XFCE with LightDM.
For locking screen I use the "dm-tool lock" command.

The problem is that when the screen is locked, the system won't suspend automatically.
I "solved" the problem by setting the screen to lock while suspending, which works.

The "error" seems to be that the system needs root priviliges to suspend when screen is locked.

I know that xubuntu uses light-locker, so I tried that too, but it seems to be the same as my solution.
(it only locks the screen after a period of time before suspending... but then the suspend doesn't work (it asks for root priviliges again))

Is there a lightDM setting I'm missing?

In lightdm.conf I have this (everything else is commented out) :

run-directory=/run/lightdm
session-wrapper=/etc/lightdm/Xsession

Last edited by Phalkon (2016-05-25 18:19:30)

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