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jt1122

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Registered: 2021-03-26

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Power management before login - lightdm

Hi,

I'm using Sparky rolling (=debian testing) with xfce & lightdm as the login manager.

It is possible to enable power-management at the login screen (before a login is made) so the machine would suspend if there was no login within a specified time?.

I have this setup in my user account but I'm referring to the pre-login phase.

Thanks

ToZ

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Re: Power management before login - lightdm

The thing to understand is that Xfce is a userland environment - meaning that it only is in effect after someone has logged in. The solution you are looking for would need to involve lightdm directly (not Xfce). Here is a post that shows how that might be done.

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jt1122

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Registered: 2021-03-26

Posts: 240

Re: Power management before login - lightdm

Great, thanks.

sh4tr

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Registered: 2014-03-20

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Re: Power management before login - lightdm

You could have a simple bash script check every so often if your laptop[?] has power and if not how much battery it has left and if less than N power off.