How to lock screen in linux before hibernating?
- by Emanuel Ey
So when i hibernate my laptop the screen doesn't lock automatically.
To solve this i've changed /etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh to contain:
su - myUsername -c "gnome-screensaver-command -l"
sudo pm-hibernate
exit 0
When running this file from a command line it works as intended (ie, lock the screen and then hibernate).
Unfortunately, when pressing the power button, it still just hibernates without locking the screen -what am I missing?
EDIT: I've added the line whoami>>~/Desktop/test.txt to verify which user is executing the /etc/acpi/powerbtn.shscript. When pressing the power button, the file test.txt is created, but is empty.
From this i conclude that the script is in fact being called when pressing the power button. What i do not understand is how the output of whoami can be empty...
