[SOLVED] KDE Lock Screen Command(s)?

BryanFRitt · 05-20-2018, 09:34 PM

I'm trying to set up BlueProximity to blank and lock the screen whenever the phone goes out of range. I found some older commands that don't work with this version of KDE, but no commands that work under Debian 9.x (Stretch) for KDE. What's the command to lock the screen in KDE? Closest thing I found was

Code:

xset dpms force off

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BryanFRitt · 05-21-2018, 11:17 PM

Found how lock/unlock!

Code:

loginctl lock-session 1

Code:

loginctl unlock-session 1

This is roughly the same code as from here, except adds a '1' for the session number(s)(and makes 'session' singular, no 's' at the end, so that doesn't need root password):
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?...130691#p350000
So I can put this together using with the xset command.

Code:

xset dpms force off

For 'Locking command': (For this Does order matter? and Does '&&' or ';' matter?),
odd...trying from the command line seams to have to have `xset dpms force off` before and after, for it to go and stay blank.

Code:

xset dpms force off && loginctl lock-session 1 && xset dpms force off

For 'UnLocking command':

Code:

loginctl unlock-session 1