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lockscreen after closing my laptop

Tue, 22 Sep 2015 22:29:29 +0000

Hi Guys This is my second Day with i3 and most thigs are pretty straight forward, but some things i just don't know how to deal with. My biggest problem along some others is that i'm not able to get a lock screen after opening my laptop again and this is essential for me. I just want to be promted for my password like i3lock does it. But why isn't it executed by my laptop going in sleep mode.? Bye

Answer by ManusX for
Hi Guys

This is my second Day with i3 and most thigs are pretty straight forward, but some things i just don't know how to deal with. My biggest problem along some others is that i'm not able to get a lock screen after opening my laptop again and this is essential for me. I just want to be promted for my password like i3lock does it. But why isn't it executed by my laptop going in sleep mode.?

Bye

Thu, 24 Sep 2015 11:28:38 +0000

Create a file ` /etc/systemd/system/sleep.target.wants/screenlock.service` which contains: [Unit] Description=Starts i3lock at suspend time Before=sleep.target [Service] User= Type=forking Environment=DISPLAY=:0 ExecStartPre= ExecStart=/usr/local/bin/lockandblur.sh [Install] WantedBy=sleep.target `/usr/local/bin/lockandblur.sh` should be exchanged by whatever you want to do, a simple `i3lock` would also succeed (in my case this is a script which takes a screenshot, blurs it using image magick and then uses it as lockscreen).

Answer by SpicyCat for
Hi Guys

This is my second Day with i3 and most thigs are pretty straight forward, but some things i just don't know how to deal with. My biggest problem along some others is that i'm not able to get a lock screen after opening my laptop again and this is essential for me. I just want to be promted for my password like i3lock does it. But why isn't it executed by my laptop going in sleep mode.?

Bye

Wed, 23 Sep 2015 03:19:16 +0000

If you want to lock your screen after some time, you can use `xautolock` exec --no-startup-id xautolock -time 4 -locker "i3lock-wrapper -l" And I create a mode to handle lock, suspend, hibernate, reboot and poweroff set $Locker i3lock-wrapper -l && sleep 1 set $mode_system System (l) lock, (e) logout, (s) suspend, (h) hibernate, (r) reboot, (Shift+s) shutdown mode "$mode_system" { bindsym l exec --no-startup-id $Locker, mode "default" bindsym e exec --no-startup-id i3-msg exit, mode "default" bindsym s exec --no-startup-id $Locker && systemctl suspend, mode "default" bindsym h exec --no-startup-id $Locker && systemctl hibernate, mode "default" bindsym r exec --no-startup-id systemctl reboot, mode "default" bindsym Shift+s exec --no-startup-id systemctl poweroff -i, mode "default" # back to normal: Enter or Escape bindsym Return mode "default" bindsym Escape mode "default" } bindsym $mod+Delete mode "$mode_system" If you mean lock and suspend when closing laptop lid, you can check [this repo](https://github.com/ruudud/i3wm-scripts) and [this post](https://faq.i3wm.org/question/828/suspend-on-lid-close-for-a-laptop-best-approaches/)

Answer by dd0 for
Hi Guys

This is my second Day with i3 and most thigs are pretty straight forward, but some things i just don't know how to deal with. My biggest problem along some others is that i'm not able to get a lock screen after opening my laptop again and this is essential for me. I just want to be promted for my password like i3lock does it. But why isn't it executed by my laptop going in sleep mode.?

Bye

Wed, 23 Sep 2015 00:41:46 +0000

I use these to lock, not sure if it's a good method.

# lock screen
bindsym $mod+Delete exec --no-startup-id "i3lock -c 000000"
# lock screen and suspend
bindsym $mod+End exec --no-startup-id "i3lock -c 000000 && systemctl suspend"
# lock and hibernate
bindsym $mod+Insert exec --no-startup-id "i3lock -c 000000 && systemctl hibernate"