Hi All,

We have a few labs of Debian machines and after 10 minutes the screens turn off (we want this). The machine never goes into a sleep state, nor does it hibernate - the screens just turn off.

What I would like to know is where can I append a line of code which will run a command when the screens come back on from mouse movement or keyboard input.

I am aware of /etc/pm/ however it does not seem to cater simply for "screen wake".

Any ideas?
Thank you very much!

Hi Shruikan,

I have never have this need, but I got intiged with your question, so I'll toss an idea:

After a quick search on the web I found this dbus-monitor command that seems to "catch" the session states

I have not hte possibility to test it right but seems that this returns a boolean value so it should be possible to catch that value and operate based on it

So my idea is that you put that in a script that runs on the background and see what is returned when you lock/unlock the screen then use the different states trigger whatever you need to do.

Let us know if you get this working, is interesting

HTH

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Hi Spatior,

Thank you very much for this! This is definitely a great lead to go on. I'm pretty new to the Linux world when it comes to doing things such as this but it does sound like some fun to play with. I'll see if I get some time today and let you know what I find.

If you do happen to get to play with it yourself, let me know! haha.

Cheers,
Shruikan.