Lock and turn off your screen on Pop!_OS

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(properly) Lock and turn off your screen on Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

Pop!_OS does not turn off your screen when you lock your screen. Where you hit tue Super+L shortcut, it seems to start some screensaver which display a black image and coincidently lock your session. But the screen itself does not go to its standby mode.

Here is my solution:

1. Nuke the <Super>l shortcut occurences:
   • List conf keys: {dconf dump / ; gsettings list-recursively } | less
   • Use dconf-editor to unset them
2. Copy the lock_and_turnoff_screen file to /bin/ or /usr/bin/ or some ${PATH}-accessible directory
3. chmod +x /bin/lock_and_turnoff_screen
4. Setup a custom shortcut via the Gnome controle center

   Name: Lock screen
   Command: /bin/lock_and_turnoff_screen
   Shortcut: <Super>+l

lock_and_turnoff_screen

#!/usr/bin/bash
dbus-send --type=method_call --dest=org.gnome.ScreenSaver /org/gnome/ScreenSaver org.gnome.ScreenSaver.Lock  \
  && sleep 3  \
  && xset dpms force off