[Solved] Locking Screen without Suspending nor Hybernating

[rojasrod]

Hello

Goal: Locking screen without shutting down any processes

Problem: After locking screen torrents stop downloading or seeding, youtube uploads stop

Settings: all supend and hybertane settings have been turned off on the xfce graphical settings.
I have also run the following script every time I want to lock screen: sudo systemctl mask sleep.target suspend.target hibernate.target hybrid-sleep.target

Setup: Linux Debian Stable 12 bookworm
XFCE 4.18
HP elitebook 8440p

Thanks for your help

[fabien]

Hello,

How do you lock the screen? xscreensaver? other?

If you launch the following command in a terminal, does it stop while the screen is locked?

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$> while true; do sleep 2; date; done

If not, do you know of a more generic command that is causing problems? (so that it can be tested)

[reinob]

You could just use a screen locker, like slock (# apt install suckless-tools).
Just assign a keyboard combination to it, and that's it.

(in my case it's assigned to [WIN]-[L]. I use openbox).

[rojasrod]

Hello,

How do you lock the screen? xscreensaver? other?

If you launch the following command in a terminal, does it stop while the screen is locked?

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$> while true; do sleep 2; date; done

If not, do you know of a more generic command that is causing problems? (so that it can be tested)

Thank you Fabien

To lock the screen I use the ctrl+alt+l or sometimes I use the action buttons on the panel

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$> while true; do sleep 2; date; done

Is this a command that I should use?

No, I don't know any other commands other than the ctrl+alt+l

[fabien]

Hello,

To lock the screen I use the ctrl+alt+l or sometimes I use the action buttons on the panel

The question is what locks the screen. It's probably xscreensaver but that's just to be sure. If it is xscreensaver, the login screen shows "xscreensaver" when you unlock, you can check that.

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$> while true; do sleep 2; date; done

Is this a command that I should use?

This command displays the date on the terminal every two seconds. You just launch it, lock the screen, wait a few seconds (or more if your problem takes longer to occur), unlock the screen, see if there are sequences that are missing (see if this command is interrupted when you lock the screen).

No, I don't know any other commands other than the ctrl+alt+l

Sorry, my sentence was incorrect. I wanted to know: if the above command in the terminal works correctly, do you know of another command that is interrupted (for example playing music from a file, or playing a video in Firefox).

However, perhaps I didn't pay enough attention to the title of your topic. You seem to be saying that your system suspends or hibernate when you use Ctrl+Alt+l.
When you go to Parameters -> Keyboard, what is the command associated with Ctrl+Alt+l?

[rojasrod]

Thank you all for your input.

I was able to solve it with this:

You could just use a screen locker, like slock (# apt install suckless-tools).
Just assign a keyboard combination to it, and that's it.

(in my case it's assigned to [WIN]-[L]. I use openbox).

[fabien]

Thanks for updating your topic

I was able to solve it with this:

You could just use a screen locker, like slock (# apt install suckless-tools).

So thanks to @reinob

Were you able to find which command is associated with Ctrl+Alt+l? Does this command trigger suspend or hibernate?