Re: [i3] Detecting screen locked

  • From: Serge van Ginderachter <serge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Discussions/Questions about the i3 window manager" <i3-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 May 2015 17:44:17 +0200

On 1 May 2015 at 17:40, Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I lock the screen from the keyboard. That key is bound to i3lock --dpms
--inactivity-timeout 10 --color=220022 .



​If you use xautolock, better trigger a lock through it then, I use the
Pause button to lock it like this:

bindsym Pause exec "xautolock -locknow"​

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