A small tool to run a command on certain events (before suspend, after some period of idling etc.). Originally designed to launch a screen locker such as i3lock, but anything can be run.
Simplelocker can be launched as:
simplelocker -i <x> -c <cmd>
To run after the session has been idle for <x> seconds.
For a more complicated example,
simplelocker -i 60 -s -l -c i3lock
Will launch i3lock:
-i 60after 60 seconds idling-simmediately before the system suspends/sleeps-lin response to a dbus method call (see Controlling a running instance)
If simplelocker has been launched with -l (say, in an i3 config file), it can be controlled with simplelocker -r.
# daemon
simplelocker -l -s -i 60 -c i3lock
...
# remote control
simplelocker -r Lock # launches i3lock
simplelocker -r Disable # disables lock-on-idle BUT will still
# lock on sleep, `-r Lock` etc.
simplelocker -r Enable # (re)enables lock-on-idle. Still
# requires the daemon was launched with -i
Options:
Allowed options:
-s [ --sleep ] Run on sleep
-S [ --shutdown ] Run on shutdown
-i [ --idle ] arg Run on idle
-d [ --dbus ] arg Run on dbus method call
-b [ --dbus-disable ] arg Disable run-on-idle on this dbus method call
-e [ --dbus-enable ] arg Enable run-on-idle on this dbus method call
-c [ --cmd ] arg Command to run
-h [ --help ] produce help message
DBus options:
-l [ --listen ] Register a dbus service to receive method calls
for control
-D [ --dbus-name ] arg Dbus service name to bind
-P [ --dbus-path ] arg Dbus object path to register
-I [ --dbus-interface ] arg Dbus interface to register
Remote call options:
-r [ --remote ] arg Call dbus method (i.e., `-r Lock` to lock a
running instance)
TBC
Simplelocker isn't packaged for any distros (yet), but it is straightforward to build.
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/jameseh96/simplelocker.git simplelocker
cd ./simplelocker
mkdir ./build
cd !$
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make
make install
- Boost
- boost-cmake
- forked sdbus-cpp
- forked from sdbus-cpp