Bug#791394: workaround

[Daniel Pocock]

On 07/07/15 16:41, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Hi
>
> Am 07.07.2015 um 15:28 schrieb Daniel Pocock:
>> For those who have root or sudo, this is a workaround:
>>
>> a) run the command
>>
>>      sleep 10 ; pm-hibernate
>>
>> b) before the 10 second sleep finishes, go to the status menu and lock
>> the screen
>>
>> If you don't do step (b) then the machine will not prompt for a password
>> when it wakes up again
>>
>> The pm-hibernate command is in the pm-utils package.
> Please avoid the usage of pm-utils. It's no longer actively developed
> and doesn't properly integrate with modern desktops using logind.
>
> A much better workaround is
> systemctl hibernate
>
> This will trigger logind and make sure the screen is locked and
> everything which installed a logind inhibitor is signalled.
>
> You could even bind that command to a keyboard shortcut.

I just tried "systemctl hibernate" and it does hibernate but it does not
lock the screen.

So I think that to use that it is necessary to do "sleep 10 ; systemctl
hibernate" and then click the lock screen control before it starts to
hibernate.