How I automatically run things after waking up my computer

Some time ago, Gentoo deprecated pm-utils, which didn’t come as a surprise considering it hasn’t been updated upstreams for 11 years now.

pm-utils was a small collection of scripts that handles suspend and resume on behalf of HAL. One of the things that pm-utils allowed me to do, was to automatically run any scripts when I woke up the computer.

With the deprecation of pm-utils, I was left with two alternatives; 1) elogind (the systemd project’s logind, extracted to a standalone package) and 2) s2ram. Considering the fact that I’m not a big fan of systemd, I really only had one choice.

While s2ram works just fine, it does lack the ability to automatically run scripts when waking up my computer. To work around this, I modified my i3lock script to run another script called suspend-resume.sh.

The solution

After a few tries, I figured out that I needed the flag -n, --nofork for i3lock to get it execute a command after waking up my computer and unlocking the screen:

i3lock -n; suspend-resume.sh 

Here’s the complete script:

#!/bin/bash

icon="$HOME/.config/i3/lock.png"
img="/tmp/i3lock.png"

rm $img
scrot $img
convert $img -scale 10% -scale 1000% $img
convert $img $icon -gravity center -composite $img

case $1 in
    lock)
        suspend-resume.sh
        i3lock -u -i $img -n; suspend-resume.sh 
        ;;
    suspend)
        suspend-resume.sh
        doas s2ram -f
        i3lock -u -i $img -n; suspend-resume.sh 
        ;;
esac

And this is what the suspend-resume-sh script looks like:

#!/bin/bash

weather.sh &
/usr/bin/vdirsyncer sync &
mbsync-notify.sh &

I actually ended up liking this solution a lot more than the old one with pm-utils, because this is all run by my own user and not as root pretending to be me.