I'm looking on a way to add a popup message on screen unlock (when you leave your post unattended, your screen locks out to black and MDM and you have to input your password again to unlock) on a Linux Mint 18.1 MATE.
The question is two-fold:
- [ANSWERED] How do I detect the screen unlock event (or DBus message)?
- Where or how do I hookup the script to initiate the listener (or DBus binding)?
I now know that I can add a zenity popup easily from a bash script. Other than that, I'm stumped.
I have found that you can add a listener to the DBUS as explained here. However, after testing the messages generated I noticed there aren't any lines with a member ActiveChanged involved.
I know that MATE is based on GNOME but I suspect that
dbus-monitor --session "type='signal',interface='org.gnome.ScreenSaver',member=ActiveChanged"
does not generate messages when I lock out and into the session. I've checked changing gnome with freedesktop with the same results.
I wish there were some desktop version of a motd but this seems quite more complicated.
UPDATE 1
With regards to the first question, as suggested in the comments, using
dbus-monitor --session "type='signal',interface='org.mate.ScreenSaver',member=ActiveChanged"
a screen unlock can be detected
org.mate.ScreenSaver– Ipor Sircer Nov 29 '17 at 11:09