Re: Fedora 37: Gnome 43: screensaver: How to lock screen from command line

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi,

I use slock. It is lightweight, and does not get in the way (as they like to say). It is part of the suckless tools (www.suckless.org).

Thanks,
Ranjan

On Sun Mar26'23 03:15:32PM, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote:
> From: Wolfgang Pfeiffer 
> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2023 15:15:32 +0200
> To: Community support for Fedora users 
> Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users 
> Subject: Re: Fedora 37: Gnome 43: screensaver: How to  lock screen from
>  command line
>
> On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 10:58:28AM +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I guess what I'm asking is if there's a standard (XDG) way to invoke a
> > screensaver.
>
> Not sure if this is a "standard (XDG) way", but I'm running i3lock:
> https://i3wm.org/i3lock/
>
> Simple and efficient.
> https://linuxcommandlibrary.com/man/i3lock
>
> My environment:
>
> % env | egrep -i 'n__desktop|session=|ssion_t|xdm'
> DESKTOP_SESSION=i3
> DM_CONTROL=/run/xdmctl
> XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
> XDM_MANAGED=method=classic
>
> % loginctl session-status | grep Servic[e]
>     Service: kdm; type x11; class user
>
> HTH,
> Wolfgang
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