Bug#919694: elogind triggers ACPI suspend on laptop lid close, contrary to prior acpi-support configuration

[Mark Hindley]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 03:52:23PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Aug 2019, Mark Hindley wrote:
> 
> > You need xss-lock to join logind to xscreensaver:
> > 
> >  xss-lock -- xscreensaver-command -lock &
> >  loginctl lock-session
> > 
> > Does that work for lid events too?
> 
> /bin/mksh: xss-lock: inaccessible or not found

You need the xss-lock package.

> With the ACPI tools the mere existence of the normal tool xlock
> (from xlockmore-gl for example) was sufficient for screen locking
> under X11.

I appreciate that. However, AFAICS xlock is not provided by any current
packages.

Mark