Comments on: Lock your laptop and turn off display with the touch of a keystroke in Ubuntu Karmic http://monda.hu/blog/2010/01/12/lock-your-laptop-and-turn-off-display-with-the-touch-of-a-keystroke-in-ubuntu-karmic/ My reality. Be my guest. Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:07:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Laci http://monda.hu/blog/2010/01/12/lock-your-laptop-and-turn-off-display-with-the-touch-of-a-keystroke-in-ubuntu-karmic/comment-page-1/#comment-112190 Laci Sun, 19 Dec 2010 22:13:54 +0000 http://monda.hu/blog/?p=821#comment-112190 Thanks for trying another workaround, Michael. Yeah, this bug is quite nasty and there is no workaround except killing gnome-power-manager. Thanks for trying another workaround, Michael. Yeah, this bug is quite nasty and there is no workaround except killing gnome-power-manager.

]]> By: michael http://monda.hu/blog/2010/01/12/lock-your-laptop-and-turn-off-display-with-the-touch-of-a-keystroke-in-ubuntu-karmic/comment-page-1/#comment-112151 michael Sun, 19 Dec 2010 06:34:22 +0000 http://monda.hu/blog/?p=821#comment-112151 spoke to soon, that doesn't work either. you still have to disable gnome-power-manager spoke to soon, that doesn't work either. you still have to disable gnome-power-manager

]]> By: michael http://monda.hu/blog/2010/01/12/lock-your-laptop-and-turn-off-display-with-the-touch-of-a-keystroke-in-ubuntu-karmic/comment-page-1/#comment-112149 michael Sun, 19 Dec 2010 06:11:18 +0000 http://monda.hu/blog/?p=821#comment-112149 For those who use xscreensaver, you can get around locking the screen and disabling gnome-power-manager by just using: xscreensaver-command -activate sleep 0 xset dpms force off the sleep 0 is probably not even necessary. For those who use xscreensaver, you can get around locking the screen and disabling gnome-power-manager by just using:

xscreensaver-command -activate
sleep 0
xset dpms force off

the sleep 0 is probably not even necessary.

]]> By: Laci http://monda.hu/blog/2010/01/12/lock-your-laptop-and-turn-off-display-with-the-touch-of-a-keystroke-in-ubuntu-karmic/comment-page-1/#comment-112002 Laci Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:51:55 +0000 http://monda.hu/blog/?p=821#comment-112002 Hey Pablo, I've just tried your method of waiting 5s instead of 3s and it didn't work. You may be using an upgraded version of gnome-power-manager which doesn't have this bug. Anyways, I'll update to 10.10 soon and hopefully this problem will get solved. Hey Pablo,

I've just tried your method of waiting 5s instead of 3s and it didn't work. You may be using an upgraded version of gnome-power-manager which doesn't have this bug. Anyways, I'll update to 10.10 soon and hopefully this problem will get solved.

]]> By: Pablo http://monda.hu/blog/2010/01/12/lock-your-laptop-and-turn-off-display-with-the-touch-of-a-keystroke-in-ubuntu-karmic/comment-page-1/#comment-111981 Pablo Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:17:57 +0000 http://monda.hu/blog/?p=821#comment-111981 Hi Lazlo! I've been using your script and followed your sugestions, except for removing gnome-power-manager or killing it. However, I think I've found a (quite simple) workaround for this (so called) "bug" (which now I'm not really sure it is so)... just increase the number of seconds to sleep to, lets say... 5. So, my script goes like this: #!/bin/bash gnome-screensaver-command -l sleep 5 xset -display :0.0 dpms force off Now, everything works just fine! :) For those of you who don't want to lock the screen, I would recommend to sleep 1 sec before executing xset (otherwise it won't work). So, this second script would include the following lines: #!/bin/bash sleep 1 xset -display :0.0 dpms force off Apparently, it might be that clicking or moving the mouse or maybe pressing the key combo, sends later events... that's why, Linux first needs some time to deal with those before you can successfully call xset. Hope this helps you all in my same situation! Greetings from Argentina! Pablo. Hi Lazlo! I've been using your script and followed your sugestions, except for removing gnome-power-manager or killing it.

However, I think I've found a (quite simple) workaround for this (so called) "bug" (which now I'm not really sure it is so)... just increase the number of seconds to sleep to, lets say... 5.

So, my script goes like this:

#!/bin/bash
gnome-screensaver-command -l
sleep 5
xset -display :0.0 dpms force off

Now, everything works just fine! :)

For those of you who don't want to lock the screen, I would recommend to sleep 1 sec before executing xset (otherwise it won't work). So, this second script would include the following lines:

#!/bin/bash
sleep 1
xset -display :0.0 dpms force off

Apparently, it might be that clicking or moving the mouse or maybe pressing the key combo, sends later events... that's why, Linux first needs some time to deal with those before you can successfully call xset.

Hope this helps you all in my same situation!

Greetings from Argentina! Pablo.

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