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charles_houston

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Registered: 2015-05-17

Posts: 11

Unit file suspend@user not found for system

I am trying to have my arch linux system trigger my i3lock after my computer hibernates. Right now I am looking at the arch linux wiki for Power management. I see that I need to use the hooks for systemd for suspend/resume. However when I try to enable suspend@user, systemctl says the unit file does not exist. When I look in /usr/lib/systemd/system, I find suspend.target, systemd-hibernate-resume@.service, systemd-suspend.service and other similar files, but nothing that I can enable. Do I need to make my own unit file?

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: Unit file suspend@user not found for system

Do I need to make my own unit file?

Yes. This is why there is a sample file in the wiki...
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Po … leep_hooks

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charles_houston

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Registered: 2015-05-17

Posts: 11

Re: Unit file suspend@user not found for system

I finally took the time to get this to work. It just took putting the sample file suspend@.service in /etc/systemd/system, editing it to run i3lock on suspend, and then enabling the service.

2ManyDogs

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Registered: 2012-01-15

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Re: Unit file suspend@user not found for system

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