Lock & unlock GNOME session using CLI

Posted on Jun 19, 2019

I personally use those commands with the gsconnect GNOME extension and KDE Connect on my Android phone:

Lock

gdbus call --session --dest org.gnome.ScreenSaver --object-path /org/gnome/ScreenSaver --method org.gnome.ScreenSaver.Lock

Unlock

loginctl unlock-session && xset dpms force on