I am favoring this approach, to use idle events to do apm -C and turn off the monitor, and run a locking screensaver when the system suspends.
Thanks On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:03 AM, David Coppa <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:37 AM, Jan Stary <[email protected]> wrote: > > On May 30 20:15:42, Robert Connolly wrote: > >> Hello. > >> > >> Is there any way to configure an ACPI event, such as closing the lid of > a > >> laptop, to run a script, like 'apm -C' and screensaver? > >> apm(8) and sensorsd(8) don't seem to do anything like this. > > > > Not exactly hooked to a lid close but to a suspend > > (which happens on lid close if machdep.lidsuspend=1) > > - see apm(8) mentioning /etc/apm/suspend. > > I have this in my ~/.xinitrc: > > xidle -area 1 -delay 10800 -program "/usr/X11R6/bin/xlock -mode blank" & > > And then in /etc/apm/suspend: > > ---8<--- > > #!/bin/sh > pkill -30 -x xidle > > ---8<--- > > Cheers! > David
