Lock Terminal and Suspend from Terminal

Question

I am trying to lock and suspend from the terminal. I tried:

pmi action suspend | at now + 1 min

And then typed

exit

But both that and vlock kill the running command. Is there a way to lock the terminal and than get the computer to suspend using only Terminal commands?

http://askubuntu.com/questions/184728/how-do-i-lock-the-screen-from-a-terminal — Raja G, Feb 11 '13 at 15:03
This command only seems to work in a terminal running side the GUI. When I try and run it from a virtual terminal it dosn't work also it does not lock the virtual terminal itself. — JGreen, Feb 11 '13 at 18:43
It is possible to use hibernate with full disk encryption. hibernate from swap file — , Sep 17 '21 at 22:30

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 21 '13 at 06:15

I use sudo -v;gnome-screensaver-command --lock;sleep 10;sudo pm-suspend, with the sleep long enough for me to put the kbd and mouse away. Look at man pm-action for other commands (pm-hibernate,pm-suspend-hybrid), and be aware that hibernate doesn't work with encrypted swap.

Lock Terminal and Suspend from Terminal

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