[Nix-dev] Automatically locking the screen with xautolock
How do I automatically lock the screen in NixOS? I've installed xautolock and slock. And tested sudo xautolock -time 1 -locker slock in the shell, which works fine. Can I make it work without sudo? It's a problem because these lines in configuration.nix: displayManager.sessionCommands = '' sudo xautolock -time 1 -locker slock ''; result in sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified So it fails to start. signature.asc Description: PGP signature ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Automatically locking the screen with xautolock
The 02/08/2015 21:07, Nikita Karetnikov wrote: How do I automatically lock the screen in NixOS? I've installed xautolock and slock. And tested sudo xautolock -time 1 -locker slock in the shell, which works fine. Can I make it work without sudo? I use xss-lock, which I recently added to Nixpkgs. I start xss-lock from .i3/config, but presumably it would work in displayManager.sessionCommands as well. xss-lock uses xset to to both configure the screensaver delay as well as to manually start the screensaver (if you want to activate the screensaver with a hotkey, for example). One of my favorite features of xss-lock is that it knows about suspend/resume and will automatically lock the screen on resume. Here is the relevant section from my .i3/config file: # Win+L locks the screen. bindsym Mod4+l exec xset s activate # Start xss-lock (and lock the screen after 15 minutes) exec_always xset s 900 exec_always --no-startup-id xss-lock -- i3lock -n -i $HOME/example.png Let me know if you need any additional information. Thanks, Michael Alyn Miller ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Automatically locking the screen with xautolock
Nice! I'm currently binding gksu 'i3lock -c00 pm-suspend' to a hotkey using i3, but this is better. Is there a standard way to get it in my fork of nixpkgs, which is tracking the release-14.12 branch? (I could just copy and paste but if there's a better way now would be a good time to learn.) Jeff On Sun, 8 Feb 2015 11:08:52 -0800 Michael Alyn Miller ma...@strangegizmo.com wrote: The 02/08/2015 21:07, Nikita Karetnikov wrote: How do I automatically lock the screen in NixOS? I've installed xautolock and slock. And tested sudo xautolock -time 1 -locker slock in the shell, which works fine. Can I make it work without sudo? I use xss-lock, which I recently added to Nixpkgs. I start xss-lock from .i3/config, but presumably it would work in displayManager.sessionCommands as well. xss-lock uses xset to to both configure the screensaver delay as well as to manually start the screensaver (if you want to activate the screensaver with a hotkey, for example). One of my favorite features of xss-lock is that it knows about suspend/resume and will automatically lock the screen on resume. Here is the relevant section from my .i3/config file: # Win+L locks the screen. bindsym Mod4+l exec xset s activate # Start xss-lock (and lock the screen after 15 minutes) exec_always xset s 900 exec_always --no-startup-id xss-lock -- i3lock -n -i $HOME/example.png Let me know if you need any additional information. Thanks, Michael Alyn Miller ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
Re: [Nix-dev] Automatically locking the screen with xautolock
If you're comfortable having it suid, you could set security.suidPrograms = [ xautolock ]; in configuration.nix. Then if xautolock is installed globally it will hopefully work without sudo. On 8 February 2015 at 10:07, Nikita Karetnikov nik...@karetnikov.org wrote: How do I automatically lock the screen in NixOS? I've installed xautolock and slock. And tested sudo xautolock -time 1 -locker slock in the shell, which works fine. Can I make it work without sudo? It's a problem because these lines in configuration.nix: displayManager.sessionCommands = '' sudo xautolock -time 1 -locker slock ''; result in sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified So it fails to start. ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev ___ nix-dev mailing list nix-dev@lists.science.uu.nl http://lists.science.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
