Yes, but also use -f (to follow child processes) and -s 2048 (to increase the size of strings) and -tt (to get timing).
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:23 AM, Jeff Abrahamson <j...@purple.com> wrote: > Sure thing. > > Just to be clear, do you mean that instead of launching "i3lock .." I > substitute "strace -o/tmp/i3lock-log-$(date +%s) i3lock ..."? > > Jeff Abrahamson > +33 6 24 40 01 57 > +44 7920 594 255 <-- only if I'm in the UK > > http://jeff.purple.com/ > http://blog.purple.com/jeff/ > > On 17 April 2015 at 09:19, Michael Stapelberg <mich...@i3wm.org> wrote: > >> i3lock shouldn’t hang around. Can you start stracing all your i3lock >> instances automatically and provide the corresponding strace output of a >> hung instance in a bugreport? >> >> On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:04 AM, Jeff Abrahamson <j...@purple.com> wrote: >> >>> I have a maintenance function that ought not bother spinning the CPU if >>> the screen is locked. It checks this thus: >>> >>> if pidof i3lock >/dev/null; then >>> ... >>> >>> This is i3-specific, which is sad, but not a huge problem. What is a >>> problem is that i3lock sometimes hangs around even though I think it should >>> exit on unlock. And, indeed, most of the time it does exit on unlock. >>> Once in a while, I find I have one or even several i3lock processes hanging >>> around. >>> >>> I either lock my screen explicitly >>> >>> bindsym $mod+Control+L exec i3lock --dpms --inactivity-timeout 10 >>> --color=220022 >>> >>> or else it's done by inactivity >>> >>> xautolock -detectsleep \ >>> -time 3 -locker "i3lock --dpms --color=220022 --inactivity-timeout >>> 10 --nofork" >>> >>> This question thus has two parts: >>> >>> 1. Am I doing something wrong that I sometimes have multiple i3lock >>> instances? >>> 2. Is there a better way to detect screen lock than pidof i3lock? >>> >>> Jeff Abrahamson >>> +33 6 24 40 01 57 >>> +44 7920 594 255 <-- only if I'm in the UK >>> >>> http://jeff.purple.com/ >>> http://blog.purple.com/jeff/ >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Michael >> > > -- Best regards, Michael
