Immediately lock screen when I close laptop lid under Gnome 3 (14.04)
How can I configure my Ubuntu 14.04, logging in using Gnome 3, to lock the screen when I close my laptop lid?
All Settings ► Power only offers Do nothing
or Suspend
as options when I close the lid.
All Settings ► Brightness & Lock is configured with Lock ON, Lock screen after Screen turns off. It doesn't seem to work.
I've tried editing /etc/systemd/logind.conf
to set HandleLidSwitch=lock
and rebooting; nothing changed.
Easy way: after changing
HandleLidSwitch=lock
you have to restart the service
sudo systemctl restart systemd-logind
There may be other simple method available for what you want but you can lock you screen using this script upon closing your lid. I found it on help.ubuntu.com. I am trying to keep it short. For detail explanation you can visit the link.
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Make the environment variables available for root.
gedit ~/export_x_info
and paste the following contets
# Export the dbus session address on startup so it can be used by any other environment sleep 5 touch $HOME/.Xdbus chmod 600 $HOME/.Xdbus env | grep DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS > $HOME/.Xdbus echo 'export DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS' >> $HOME/.Xdbus # Export XAUTHORITY value on startup so it can be used by cron env | grep XAUTHORITY >> $HOME/.Xdbus echo 'export XAUTHORITY' >> $HOME/.Xdbus
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Make it eecutable using
chmod 700 ~/export_x_info
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You need to run it on startup. So add it to Startup Applications. Select Startup Programs from Gnome Menu, and click Add.
Name:<Any name you want> Command:/home/your_user/export_x_info
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Now you need to edit your /etc/acpi/lid.sh file which catch lid open and close event. Change user_name with your user name
gksudo gedit /etc/acpi/lid.sh
and paste/home/your_user/lid_event
just after#!/bin/bash
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Now you need to create a script for close event so that you can lock your screen.
gedit ~/lid_event
and paste the following.#!/bin/bash grep closed /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state if [ $? = 0 ] then source /home/user_name/.Xdbus DISPLAY=:0.0 su user_name -c "gnome-screensaver-command -l" fi
Also check for /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID0/state file because
LID0
may beLID
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Now restart your ACPI using
sudo /etc/init.d/acpid restart
Make sure that the Power Management option for laptop lid closed is set to do nothing