autolockd

autolockd is a simple, dbus aware autolocker. autolock-daemon is run as a daemon and should be autostarted from the X session. autolock-cmd allows control of a running autolockd.

autolockd is primary targetted at minimal desktop environments like awesome and xmonad.

Description

It uses DBUS as system interface, especially the org.freedesktop.UPower interface. The idle time is retrieved using ctypes bindings for the MIT screen saver X extension.

It can be configured to lock on lid close, prior to suspend or hibernate and after a specified idle time. Additionally it can be locked manually by autolock-cmd lock.

There is a simple lock-inhibition mechanism (the autolock-cmd disable, autolock-cmd enable commands) for direct user interaction.

It is planned to implement the org.gnome.ScreenSaver, org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver interfaces additionally to the net.zombofant.autolockd interface, and therefore lock inhibition for programs.

The screen locker to be invoked can be configured to be any command. Currently it must not return until the lock ends. By default pyxtrlock is used. These restrictions shall be lifted in future versions.

Installation

Clone and install autolockd:

$ git clone git://github.com/zombofant/autolockd.git
$ cd autolockd
$ sudo python3 setup.py install

This installs the autolockd python package and the two scripts autolock-daemon and autolock-cmd.

For the default locking mechanism to work you shoudl also install pyxtrlock.

Configuration

See default.conf for the available options and their default values. By default ~/.autolockd is used as config file. The --config-file option lets you use another config file.

Invocation

Server:

usage: autolock-daemon [-h] [--version] [-c CONFIG] [-v]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -c CONFIG, --config CONFIG
                        Set alternative config file [default ~/.autolockd]
  -v, --verbose         Increase verbosity level

Client:

usage: autolock-cmd [-h] [--version] {lock,unlock,disable,enable} ...

positional arguments:
  {lock,unlock,disable,enable}

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit

Bugs

Currently there is no support for the org.freedesktop.ScreenSaver dbus interface.

The locking command must not exit before the screen is unlocked (the state of the screen locking program process is used for state control).

Please report bugs you may find to our github bug tracker.

Requirements

• python3-dbus
• python3-gobject (gi)
• libX11, libXss (interfaced via ctypes)
• a provider of the DBUS interface org.freedesktop.UPower
• X server with MIT screen saver extension
• screenlocker for default configuration: pyxtrlock

Authors

• Jonas Wielicki j.wielicki@sotecware.net
• Sebastian Riese s.riese@zombofant.net
• Leon Weber leon@leonweber.de

autolockd was partially inspired by xautolock.

License

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.