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

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2023-03-24 at 21:06 +0100, Dario Lesca wrote:
> Found it, by myself
>
> https://notes.zerodogg.org/GNOME/lock-unlock-cli/
>
> # Lock
> dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver --type=method_call -
> -print-reply --reply-timeout=20000 /org/gnome/ScreenSaver
> org.gnome.ScreenSaver.SetActive boolean:true
>
> # Unlock
> dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver --type=method_call -
> -print-reply --reply-timeout=20000 /org/gnome/ScreenSaver
> org.gnome.ScreenSaver.SetActive boolean:false

This appears to be Gnome-specific. Presumably equivalents exist for
those of us who use other DEs, but it would be interesting if a generic
solution existed.

poc