[Solved] How to Lock Screen based on inactivity

[Member rek769]

Hello everyone. I’m trying to get xlock to launch after X minutes of inactivity.

Ideally, I’d like to hack the script that controls Screen Blanking to invoke xlock instead of xset as it appears to do now but attempts to do that have not worked.

I’ve tried un-commenting and setting the LockCommand in the Icewm preferences file. But that only works if ScreenLock is invoked via Icewm menu (or CTRL-ALT-DEL).

I’ve tried messing around with Xscreensaver but I get errors complaining about the daemon not starting (I think Xscreensaver has gotten tangled up in systemd nowadays so that may be the issue).

I would not mind using Screen Blanking without locking but the issue is that I use a TV as my monitor and after the screen blanks, the TV turns itself off after a few minutes (with no way to change that behavior in the TV settings) and I have to turn it on again to use the computer. I’d prefer just to tap a key, type my password and go.
Any ideas on how I could accomplish this would be greatly appreciated.

• This topic was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by rek769.

[Member oops]

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I use i3lock after 15 minutes:

xautolock -time 15 -detectsleep -locker "i3lock -c 000000" &

# + and to suspend:
xautolock -time 15 -detectsleep -locker "i3lock -c 000000 && dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.login1 /org/freedesktop/login1 org.freedesktop.login1.Manager.Suspend boolean:true" &

• This reply was modified 6 months, 2 weeks ago by oops.

[Member techore]

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You have not provided details on what you have tried, but you may want to experiment with “xset s off; xset -dpms; xset s noblank” and disable any power management and screen saver. Once you got it working, tweak until satisfied.

I set xset, dpms, and xss-lock from ~/.xinitrc.

[Member rek769]

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Excellent. Xautolock did the trick. I’m using it with xlock and it works perfectly.

Thank you!

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Your are welcome.

My old post was here with an other solution:
https://www.antixforum.com/forums/topic/what-is-the-best-way-to-have-auto-suspend-into-antix/#post-21240

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Understood and thank you for sharing the old post. I’ve not use xautolock, myself, so this is informative.

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