On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 07:21:52PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
> Apparently there's a whole little cottage industry of ways people have been
> trying to use to get this working, e.g.:
>
> * a xss-lock package that subscribes to Linux power events more
> natively
> * a pm-utils package which provides a hooking mechanism in
> /usr/lib/pm-utils/sleep.d/
>
> The xscreensaver package should probably document some of these options,
> provide examples, and add some package relationships to indicate what should
> be done... laptops suspending isn't really a niche use case these days.
Fun fact: the latter method I found is already obsolete... the systemd way
is to put something in /lib/systemd/system-sleep/, yet the systemd-sleep
manual page says:
Note that scripts or binaries dropped in /lib/systemd/system-sleep/ are
intended for local use only and should be considered hacks. If
applications want to be notified of system suspend/hibernation and
resume, there are much nicer interfaces available.
It proceeds not to actually mention any one of those nicer interfaces.
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