On Tue, Sep 3, 2019, at 8:54 PM, joshua stein wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Sep 2019 at 19:41:40 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > One remaining issue is getting the screen to lock when the laptop lid is
> > closed and the laptop suspends. The screen does not lock and just resumes
> > to the XFCE4 desktop.
> >
> > I have the following in my .xsession:
> >
> > bsd$ cat .xsession
> > xidle -timeout 300 -program "/usr/local/bin/slock" &
> >
> > Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> xidle locks on SIGUSR1, so you could send it such a signal upon
> suspend.
>
> With apmd enabled, add "pkill -USR1 xidle" to /etc/apm/suspend
>
>
Thank you. I should have said, I have the following:
bsd# cat /etc/apm/suspend
#!/bin/sh
pkill -USR1 xidle
and that file is executable.
