lockd - Manage your lock screen
Note: This program is not intended for the average user using a desktop environment like Plasma, GNOME or Unity. This is intended for users of standalone window managers like i3, xmonad or awesome.
WIP: Please note that currently the lock command is hardcoded to i3lock -c 000000 --nofork
Features
- Automatically locks screen when system gets suspended
- Will prevent suspend before screen is locked
- Has option to disable automatic suspend on lid close
Usage
Make sure lockd starts together with your i3:
execonce lockd
To lock your screen manually, do not start i3lock manually but use lockctl lock to ensure the internal state of lockd is correct.
To prevent your system from suspending when you close the lid, run lockctl lidaction ignore. To revert use lockctl lidaction suspend. You can query the status at any time using lockctl lidaction
Automatic Screen Locking
set up xautolock: xautolock -locker 'lockctl perform_autolock'
To temporarily turn off automatic screen locking: lockctl autolock off. Once that has been run, lockctl perform_autolock turns onto a no-op