Re: Getting screen to lock on suspend with Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon

On Tue, Sep 3, 2019, at 8:54 PM, joshua stein wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Sep 2019 at 19:41:40 -0400, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> > One remaining issue is getting the screen to lock when the laptop lid is closed and the laptop suspends. The screen does not lock and just resumes to the XFCE4 desktop.
> >
> > I have the following in my .xsession:
> >
> > bsd$ cat .xsession
> > xidle -timeout 300 -program "/usr/local/bin/slock" &
> >
> > Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> xidle locks on SIGUSR1, so you could send it such a signal upon
> suspend.
>
> With apmd enabled, add "pkill -USR1 xidle" to /etc/apm/suspend
>
>

Thank you. I should have said, I have the following:

bsd# cat /etc/apm/suspend
#!/bin/sh
pkill -USR1 xidle

and that file is executable.