How To: i3lock with Suspend

[dkeg]

may or may not be useful. activate i3lock when suspend.

Full Disclosure, I forget where I came across, not my creation.

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#!/bin/bash

username=xxx    # insert username
userhome=/home/$username
export XAUTHORITY="$userhome/.Xauthority"
export DISPLAY=":0"
case "$1" in
hibernate|suspend)
su $username -c "/usr/bin/i3lock"    # see second example below
;;
thaw|resume)
           ;;
*) exit $NA
;;
esac

save, name, place in /etc/pm/sleep.d
chmod 755
chown root:root

I use an image for i3lock, so my syntax is

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su $username -c "/usr/bin/i3lock -i /home/dkeg/.i3/i3lock_back.png"

[GekkoP]

Nice one. I still have to play around with i3lock, but I'll use this script.

[elixir]

After reading this, I used i3lock for the first time and it scared the heck out of me! Why screen turned white and I was like WHAT DID I JUST DO. I thought out the work lock though and figured it out ;) I am going to check out your script now ;)

[dkeg]

Cool! That same thing happened to me. And once you for this one going, I have another to share

[57kev]

dkeg, nice I will borrow this, thanks.

as an aside I use a Windows 8 image with i3lock on my laptop, screws with the young and unwary. ;-)

[elixir]

^ I saw the windows 8 picture and I was like (-.-) but when I read your post I was like (^.^)

[dkeg]

This is a blend of above and a post wux shared using a pixelated image

http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f ... end#p17086

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#!/bin/bash

## takes screen shot
scrot /tmp/screen_locked.png
## blur the image and save
convert /tmp/screen_locked.png -scale 10% -scale 1000% /tmp/screen_locked2.png
## suspend with pm-suspend script
sudo pm-suspend

and in /etc/pm/sleep.d/suspend.sh

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#!/bin/bash

username=xxx    # insert username
userhome=/home/$username
export XAUTHORITY="$userhome/.Xauthority"
export DISPLAY=":0"
case "$1" in
hibernate|suspend)
## use blurred current desktop image
su $username -c "/usr/bin/i3lock -i /tmp/screen_locked2.png"
## use static image
#su $username -c "/usr/bin/i3lock -i /home/dkeg/images/i3lock_back2.png"  
;;
thaw|resume)
           ;;
*) exit $NA
;;
esac

[wuxmedia]

I borrowed it from someone else !
so you mean that this script makes the i3lock come up *after* waking from suspend?
or during?

[dkeg]

after.

[wuxmedia]

I think mine still counts to ten mins, then it wakes up then realises its supposed to be locked, so hurriedly locks the screen up again.
if i suspend/restore before that, no screen lock
So thanks, for posting that!

[dkeg]

so does that happen for you with the above scripts? Or before?