On 2022-06-07, Florian Obser <[email protected]> wrote: > Since my other computer is a datacenter, and my laptop is just a > glorified vt100, I figured how to autosuspend it when it's idle for some > time. > > I already at xidle(1) in my .xsession to start xlock(1). I then > discovered -startCmd in xlock(1). > > I know have this: > > $ cat xlock_zzz > #! /bin/sh > > exec /usr/X11R6/bin/xlock -startCmd "/bin/sleep 300 && /usr/sbin/zzz" > > and this in my .xsession: > > xidle -program /home/florian/bin/xlock_zzz -timeout 300 & > > So after 5 minutes xidle starts xlock and 5 minutes after that my laptop > autosuspends. If I unlock the laptop before 5 minutes expire the sleep > gets killed and the laptop doesn't suspend.
this is neat, but it makes me wish for ssh resume ;)
