lightdm and screen timeout to lock

[Jerry Geis]

On Fri, Dec 9, 2022 at 4:04 AM Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <
ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2022-12-08 at 21:38 -0500, Jerry Geis wrote:
> > The setting says after timeout of 5 minute - but that never happens.
>
> Hi,
>
> what setting says this? What locker are you using?
>
> Did you try light-locker?
>
> https://github.com/the-cavalry/light-locker
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/jammy/light-locker
>
> While I'm a lightdm user on Ubuntu as well as Arch Linux, I manually
> lock the screen and don't use light-locker myself. I dislike auto-
> locking. Manually locking works by running e.g.
>
>   dm-tool lock
>
> the lightdm command line tool, to get the lightdm greeter. I tend to run
>
>   xflock4
>
> by a menu item, this way I get another greeter, than the one used to
> start a session. I'm not running Xfce 4. I run a lightweight openbox
> sessions, but I don't care about my Linux install's sizes. I care about
> RAM and CPU usage footprints, but I don't bother about a few GiB on a
> SSD, since the SSDs anyway hold TiBs of data.
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
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thanks - I made a /usr/share/application/dmtool.desktop to run  dm-tool
lock . This worked - Not sure why one is not there by default.
dm-tool is installed - the lock icon does work now on the desktop

jerry
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