[arch-general] stability from pm-suspend ?

[Byron Clark]

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:50:23AM -0600, Gary Wright wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Ian-Xue Li <da.mi.spirit at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Security is indeed one problem I'm looking to resolve, because with
> > suspend, it goes back directly into the system, without having to enter
> > login/password...
> >
> > I wonder if there's some way to achieve something like winxp, which
> > resumes back into the login manager, not the usable system itself.
> > But that would probably require a session manager as well, I don't know.
> 
> 
> Well, this is what I could dig up:  should work if you're using
> xscreensaver (might have to modify the instructions a little bit to
> work with arch's pm-utils, but shouldn't be too tough:)
> 
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-laptop-and-netbook-25/lock-screen-requiring-password-to-unlock-when-resuming-from-suspend-327512/
> 

And here's one that works well with pm-utils:
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36219

-- 
Byron Clark