On Fri, 2023-03-24 at 21:06 +0100, Dario Lesca wrote:
Found it, by myself
https://notes.zerodogg.org/GNOME/lock-unlock-cli/
# Lock
dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver --type=method_call -
-print-reply --reply-timeout=20000 /org/gnome/ScreenSaver
org.gnome.ScreenSaver.SetActive boolean:true
# Unlock
dbus-send --session --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver --type=method_call -
-print-reply --reply-timeout=20000 /org/gnome/ScreenSaver
org.gnome.ScreenSaver.SetActive boolean:false
This appears to be Gnome-specific. Presumably equivalents exist for
those of us who use other DEs, but it would be interesting if a generic
solution existed.
poc