On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:27 PM, Ian-Xue Li <da.mi.spirit@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Security is indeed one problem I'm looking to resolve, because with > suspend, it goes back directly into the system, without having to enter > login/password... > > I wonder if there's some way to achieve something like winxp, which > resumes back into the login manager, not the usable system itself. > But that would probably require a session manager as well, I don't know. Well, this is what I could dig up: should work if you're using xscreensaver (might have to modify the instructions a little bit to work with arch's pm-utils, but shouldn't be too tough:) http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-laptop-and-netbook-25/lock-screen-requiring-password-to-unlock-when-resuming-from-suspend-327512/