Macro on Lock Screen?

[dberm22]

Hi all! New to the forum...

I am running the standard gnome screensaver and I am trying to detect when the lock screen shows so that I can run a macro when it does. I looked in gnome-screensaver-command, but could not find anything. All my macro would do would be to simulate the tab key and then the enter key to bring me to a new menu which I find much more attractive as a lock screen. There might be better ways to do this, but this seems like it would be the easiest option. Any ideas on how I can accomplish this?

I've seen this, but I dont follow: http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/28181/run-script-on-screen-lock-unlock

Thanks

[dberm22]

Wow, thanks for nothing :P.

Anyway, for everyone else who might have this same problem, I wrote a script to lock the screen which i named "switchuserlock.sh":



#!/bin/sh
# Use "Switch User" screen as lock screen


gnome-screensaver-command -l
xdotool key Alt+w
xdotool key KP_Enter


And I use xautolock to launch it. I added this line to my etc/rc.local file



xautolock -time 10 -locker "switchuserlock" &


But it's not working. Can anybody tell why?