[arch-general] Xscreensaver is Active on Resume from Manual Suspend

Bastien Dejean nihilhill at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 05:20:53 EST 2011


Bastien Dejean:

> I've created /etc/pm/sleep.d/49xscreensaver:
> 
>     #! /bin/dash
> 
>     case $1 in
>         resume | thaw)
>             xscreensaver-command -deactivate >&- 2>&- &
>             ;;
>     esac
> 
> We'll see how it behaves...

My script is called a little late in the waking process, so I still
briefly see xscreensaver before it deactivates, but I think I can live
with that.

Of course, I know I could kill xscreensaver on sleep and re-spawn it on
resume, but I was hoping for a more elegant solution.


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